Othello quotes

race

“thicklips”

“Barbary horse”

“moor”

“black ram is tupping your white ewe"

“by spells and medicine”

“blacker devil”

female subordination

“where most you owe obedience”

“foul thief”

“jewel”

“oh heaven how she got out”

duplicity

“by janus, I think no”

“a man he is of honesty and trust”

“divinity of hell”

“honest Iago”

“they do suggest at first heavenly shows” - have to appear good in order to not suspected as bad

“I’ll pour this pestillience into his ears”- plosive

“I know thou’rt full of love and honesty”

Othello calm subvertingthe sterotype

“let her speak of me before her father”

“Rude I am in my speech”

“most potent, grave and reverend signors”

“let her have your voice”

women relating to infidelity

“strumpet”

“drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen” (doesnt understand love)

Iago cant understand love for him its purely sexual “that you call love”

“I know our country well”- Iago knows the women of Venice well + plays on Othello’s otherness and outsider + racial

“a corner in the thing i love for other’s uses”

“good wench” -I

“my love a whore” -O

“by selling her desires, she buys herself bread and clothes”

“what a customer”

“oh well painted passion”

“bawd”

birth imagery

“womb of time”

“delivered”

reputation

“I have lost my reputation” → lots of reputition

“good name in man and women”

“justice of it pleases me”

Desdemona speaking out for cassio

“his bed shall seem a school”

Iago planting the seed of doubt

“ha i like not that”

“nothing my lord; I know not what”- broken syntax + witholding

“honest, my lord?”

“think my lord?” - echoing Othello aggravating him

“look to your wife”

“she did deceive her father” direct echo from Brabantio

“of her own clime, complexion and degree” - she rejcted so mny suitors of her own background making Othello question why she would go out with him

“to kiss in private”

Othello accepting Iago’s ploys

“I am bound to thee”

Act three scene 3 Othello’s soliloquay

Othello polluted

“Ha! Ha! false to me?” - broken syntax no longer in poetry + monosyllabic

“farewell a tranquil mind'“

“Othello’s occupation is gone” - Desdemona’s fidelity is the foundation of his identity

“[falls into a trance]”

“goats and monkeys”- echoes Iago

“the fountain fro which my current runs or else dries up”- his identity bolstered to her fidelity she is his life source

desdemona described

“beautiful creature”

“a moth of peace”

“wedding sheets” - forboding wants to assert”

“tis meet” passive

“kill me not

“let me live tonight

“a guiltless death i die”

Othello realises her innocence in 5.2

violence

“strangle her in her bed”

“even the bed she hath contaminated”

“justice of it pleases me”

“Devil!” [striking her]

“she must die or she shall betray more men”

“he smothers her”

female solidarity + power

“the purest of their wives”

“prithee unpin me”

“willow song”

emilia’s proto feminist speech 4.3 - triadic structure rhetorical questions

“i will not charm my tongue

“I will ne’er go home”