ACT 1, SCENE 2

“I pray you sir, Are you fast married?”

• Iago is acting innocent or didn’t know before, either way this is manipulative

• Plants the idea in Othello’s head that he may be too fast married

“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them”

• feminine line ending/ long line

• Poetic - shows oratory

• Confidence, almost sarcastic

“O thou foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter?”

• AO2: “foul thief” is repetition of what Iago said previously - shows his manipulation

• AO2: “thou” Brabantio speaks down to Othello - shows his status as a white man even though they’re both respected in Venice

• AO2: “stowed” suggests he’s hidden her, objectifies her

“Thou hast enchanted her…in chains of magic”

• AO3: plays on racial stereotypes of those who are ‘other’ being involved in witchcraft

• AO2: motif of charms and magic throughout

“Tender, fair, and happy”

• AO2: Semantic field of virtue to depict Desdemona as a victim

“Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom Of such a thing as thou; to fear”

• AO2: “sooty” connotes black, and is used rudely here in a racist way to show Othello’s racial inferiority by aligning him with dirt

• AO2: “thing” suggests that Othello isn’t human and so continues with the theme of him being ‘other’

“For if such actions may have passage free, Bondslaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.”

• said by Brabantio

• Saying that Venice will soon be run by black people - playing on racial fears

• AO2: rhymed verse → emphasises the point and punctuates the scene