Othelo Act 5 Scene 2 Flashcards
(19 cards)
Summarise what happens in this scene
Othello is strongly affected by the sight of sleeping Desdemona, but kills her
Emilia discovers the murder and proclaims Desdemona innocence, reveals what Iago has done
Iago kills Emilia and othello is arrested by Lodovico
Othello stabs himself. Iago is arrested
What dot e white objects symbolise?
Unchanging innocence, indicating that Othello desires a wife who can be controlled and will not alter with time or mood
Indicates Othello’s internalised racist ideas and is preoccupied with Desdemona’s whiteness, he believes that she will not love him because of ethnic differences
What does light symbolise?
Hope, innocence, purity, heavenliness, life
“I’ll not shed..”
‘…her blood/ not scar that whiter skin of hers than snow/ and smooth as monumental alabaster”
“I know not where…”
“…is that Prometheus heat/that can thy light relume”
“Some bloody…”
“…passion/shakes your very frame”
“May his pernicious soul…”
“…rot half a grain a day”
“Ill speak as…”
“…liberal as the north”
“From this time…”
“…forth I never will speak a word”
“I have done the state…”
“…some service, and they know it”
“Of one that loved…”
“…not wisely,but too well/ of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought/perplexed in the extreme”
Define passive
Accepting or allowing what happens or what others do without having an active response
Define seeking retribution
And attempt to get revenge or seek punishment on someone or yourself for doing wrong
Define automaton
Refers to a person who acts in a mechanical or unemotional way
Define self-aggrandising
Increasing ones power
Define torment by remorse
Guilt/ feeling guilty
Define heinous
Horrific, reprehensible, unforgivable
Define evasive
Avoiding responding to questions
Define irrefutable
Impossible to deny or disprove
