Othello Quotes/Notes

quotes n notes and fun stuff!

Racial stereotypes - bestial imagery

Old black ram is tupping your white ewe A1S1

Insecurity about age

“I am declined in

Insecure about being an outsider/being black

Rude am I in my speech

Othello’s fear of losing desdemona’s love - sexual jealousy

Why did I marry?

He believes in his ‘infidelity’ - he’s out for revenge. Black imagery

Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell

He realises his regret at the els - anagnorisis

O fool, fool, fool!

Iago planting the seeds of Othello’s hamartia - jealousy. bestial imagery

Beware, my lord, of jealousy. It is the green eyes monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on

He starts seeing deception where there is none - roman allusion, dirty imagery

Her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face

He’s incoherent and desperate - he hits her, he’s got violent urges

I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me!

othello is initially respected - tragic hero

Valiant Othello, Noble Moor

Peripeteia - iago’s manipulations start it.

I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear

Anagnorisis - his critical discovery of what happened. he recognises his flaws

One not easily jealous, One that loved not wisely but too well

Catharsis - audience feels pity for his situation

I kissed thee ere I killed thee

He’s not a tragic hero - he never had true virtue

She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her

not a tragic hero - no anagnorisis -he calls Iago a devil, blaming him not himself

If that thou be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee

It’s Iago’s fault - the handkerchief plot - othello has jealous confirmation

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong

Racist imagery - fair vs black, he’s an insider and an outsider

Far more fair than black

Othello is an outsider- he corrupts desdemona

Corrupted by spells and medicines

Othello’s disjointed speech about the handkerchief

Handkerchief - confessions - handkerchief!

He recognises his position as both insider and outsider

I have done the state some service, and they know’t

He’s eloquent

Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors

Venetian women are whores

In Venice, they do let God see the pranks they dare not show their husbands

othello believes dessy to fit the stereotype of promiscuous women - she’s a whore

I took you for that cunning whore of Venice

Desdemona’s worth is tied to her virginity - her moral corruption is tied to her loss of chastity

Thou weed, who art so lovely fair

Othello’s misogynistic justification for killing her based on her supposed loss of virginity

Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men

Desdemona breaks social boundaries/gender roles in marrying othello

So much I challenge due to the Moor my lord

Iago betrays traditional loyalties, he only gaf abt himself not othello

I follow him to serve my turn upon him

Emilia challenges gender roels - speaks out

It is their husbands’ faults if wives do fall