Quotes Flashcards
(44 cards)
In Act 1 Scene 1, what racially offensive term does Roderigo label Othello?
He references him by ‘thick lips’
How does Iago equate the marriage of Othello and Desdemona to thievery in Act 1, Scene 1?
He shouts ‘Look to your house, your daughter and your bags! Thieves! Thieves!’
How does Iago use racist terms to brutalise the idea of sex between Othello and Desdemona to Brabantio in Act 1, Scene 1?
He describes how ‘An old black ram is tupping your white ewe’
In Act 1 Scene 1, how does Iago equate the act of sex between Othello and Desdemona to a monster?
He says to Brabantio that ‘Your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs’
How is Iago presented as an open Machiavellian villain in Act 1, Scene 1?
When Brabantio states ‘Thou art a villain’, he responds with ‘You are a senator’
In Act 1 Scene 2, how does Brabantio accuse Othello of his ability to ‘win’ Desdemona?
‘Thou hast practised on her with foul charms, abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals that weakens motion’
In Act 1 Scene 2, how is a patriarchal impression of the marriage of Desdemona and Othello created?
Othello states that he ‘won his daughter’
How does Othello give Desdemona a voice in the court scene of Act 1 Scene 3?
He states ‘Send for the lady.. and let her speak of me before her father’
How is the strength of Othello’s trust in Desdemona demonstrated in Act 1 Scene 3?
‘Let your sentence even fall upon my life’
How does Othello summarise the nature of his courtship of Desdemona in Act 1 Scene 3?
‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them’
How does Desdemona defy her father in Act 1 Scene 3?
‘You are Lord of all duty; but here’s my husband’
How does the patriarch Brabantio warn Othello of Desdemona’s defiant nature?
‘She has deceived her father, and may thee’
How does Othello put his trust in Desdemona in the end of Act 1 Scene 3?
He states ‘My life upon her faith’
What is Iago’s prominent epithet, given to him by Othello in Act 1 Scene 3?
‘Honest Iago’
How does Iago describe Desdemona in relation to Venice at the end of Act 1 Scene 3?
He calls her a ‘super-subtle Venetian’
In Iago’s soliloquy of Act 2 Scene 1, how does he describe his plan to frame Cassio?
‘With as little a web as this, I will ensnare as great a fly as Cassio’
In Act 2, Scene 1, how does Iago describe Emilia?
‘Sir, would she give you so much of her lips as her tongue she oft bestows on me, you would have enough’
How does Othello greet Desdemona in Act 2 Scene 1?
‘O, my fair warrior!’
In Act 2, Scene 3, what is Cassio most upset about following his removal from his lieutenant position?
‘Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!’
How does Shakespeare foreshadow Othello’s downfall in relation to Desdemona in Act 3 Scene 1?
Othello states to Desdemona ‘I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again’
How does Iago warn Othello of jealousy and create the leading theme of the play in Act 3 Scene 3?
He says ‘Beware, my Lord, of jealousy. It is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on’
How does Othello describe his deteriorating mental stability and happiness to Iago in Act 3 Scene 3?
He cries ‘Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content, farewell the plumed troops.. Farewell! Othello’s occupation gone!’
In Act 3, Scene 3, what does Othello describe as being lost to him as a result of Desdemona’s infidelity?
‘Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!’
How does Othello describe his wish to stay ignorant to Desdemona’s ‘infidelity’ to Iago in Act 3, Scene 3?
‘He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen’
