pure love Flashcards
(9 cards)
‘Send for the lady to the Sagittary and let her speak of me before her father
He sees her as having agency and wants to give her a voice, which goes against the stereotype of women not being involved in big issues.
‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed/ and I loved her that she did pity them/ this only is the witchcraft I have used’
Combatting against stereotypes - there is an equality between them and their love, which creates stability - there is no reference to physical attraction but only on a spiritual level.
‘I saw Othello’s visage in his mind’
Metaphor - they are equal at the beginning of the play and connected on a deeper level than just convention
‘If after every tempest comes such calms may the winds blow till they have wakened death’
This demonstrates the purity of their love and the strength of it at the beginning of the play; however is some dramatic irony in this, as by the end of the play their love ends up destroyed by Iago’s poison.
‘Predition catch my soul/ but I do love thee; and when I love thee not/ chaos is come again’
‘Ineed?’
Foreshadows the later events of the tragedy, as when he loses faith in her, he loses his grip on sanit.y
‘My noble Moor is true of mind and made of no such baseness/ as jealous creatures are’
Desdemona is blinded by her love for Othello and sees him in a glorified way, which becomes dangerous in the later scenes as she does not understand his change
‘I think the sun where he was born/ drew all such humours from him’
humours were used to determine illness and a balance of all four humours made the perfect humours - Desdemona’s description may be positive yet Othello’s lack of humours would actually make him very unstable in the eyes of physisits
‘I will deny thee nothing’
Shows how he values her opinion and respects her
‘The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue: That profit’s yet to come ’tween me and you’
Consummation of marriage - shows how much they love each other
