Rising action Flashcards
(21 cards)
“Our great captains captain”
Establishes insecurity around masculinity Act 2 Scene 1 (Cassio)
“Oh you are well tuned now But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music”
Act 2 Scene 1 Iago plans to corrupt the love between Othello’s and Desdemona
“If after every tempest comes such calms may the winds blow until they have awakened death”
Act 2 Scene 1 Foreshadows downfall of relationship as D and O are reunited
“Wife for wife”
Act 2 scene 1 reveals some of Iago’s motive
“An inviting eye yet methinks right modest”
Act 2 Scene 3 Cassio’s resistance to Iago’s scheming
“Very poor and unhappy brains for drinking”
Act 2 scene 3 Iago’s first move
(They fight)
Act 2 scene 3 Cassio’s downfall
“Hold the General speaks to you”
Act 2 scene 3 Othello’s reliance on Iago
“Reputation Reputation reputation… I have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial”
Act 2 Scene 3 Cyprus associated with chaos Cassio’s downfall mirroring Othello’s
“I’ll pour this pestilence in his ear that she repeals him for her body’s lust”
Act 2 Scene 3 Iago associated with disease and sexuality - infidelity like a plague
“I do vow a friendship I’ll perform it to the last article”
Act 3 scene 3 Desdemona’s bond w Cassio is secured, next step for Iago
“As if there were some monster in thy thought”
Act 3 scene 3 Othello to Iago unwittingly falling into his trap
“My lord you know I love you”
Act 3 Scene 3 allusion to Peter in the bible - irony of Igbo being unchristian despite xenophobia he displays to Othello
“‘‘tis destiny unshunnable like death Even then this forked plague is fated to us”
Act 3 Scene 3 Othello’s toxic masculinity- good men destined to get cheated on- start of his downfall
“I nothing but please his fantasy”
act 3 Scene 3 Emilia feeding Iago’s plot
“As Dian’s visage is now begrimed and black as my own face”
Act 3 Scen 3 believing Iago, insecurity about race
“Oh blood,blood blood”
Othello driven to an animalistic violence by Iago’s scheming Act 3 Scene 3
[kneels]
Act 3 Scene 3 Iago and Othello literally even the playing field becoming bonded forever in their hatred
“Furnish me with some swift means of death for the fair devil”
Act 3 Scene 3 Othello’s set on the course of destruction by Iago
“There is magic in the web of it”
Act 3 Scene 4 Othello falling into racial stereotypes, loss of identity
“She has deceived her father and may thee”
Act 3 Scene 3 - infidelity as a disease/ catching. Idea of Desdemona as a threat to further men
