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HIERARCHIES Iago Diction Promotion to do with education

'Tis the curse of service; preferment goes by letter and affection
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HIERARCHIES
Iago
Simile
Service without deception is demeaning
Wears out his time like his master's ass
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GOOD VS EVIL
DECEPTION
Iago
Devils appearing heavenly
When devils will the blackest sins put on, they do suggest at first with heavenly shows
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GOOD VS EVIL
Iago
Metaphor
We control ourselves
Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners
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GOOD VS EVIL
DECEPTION
Iago
Imagery, metaphor
Goodness to evil, contextual
So will I turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all.
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GOOD VS EVIL
Othello
Personification
Evil is caged inside all of us
Arise, black vengeance , from thy hollow cell!
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GOOD VS EVIL
LOVE
Othello
Imagery
Love/emotion the root of extreme action
O love, thy crown and hearted throne to tyrannous hate!
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STORYTELLING
Othello
His story won Desdemona
I should but teach him how to tell my story, and that would woo her.
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STORYTELLING
DECEPTION
Iago
Metaphor, simile
Power/danger of lies, imagination
Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons, which are at the first are scarce found to distaste but with a little act upon the blood, burn like the mines of sulfur.
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REPUTATION
Cassio
Repetition, diction
Reputation separates us from animals
I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
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REPUTATION
Iago
Repetition
Triviality of reputation
an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
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REPUTATION
Iago
Metaphor
Immense value of reputation
Good name in man and woman... is the immediate jewel of their souls.
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DECEPTION
Iago
Metaphor
Revealing desires leaves you vulnerable
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.
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DECEPTION
Brabantio
Couplet
Warns that deception is in a person's nature
Look to her Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:
She has deceived her father and may deceive thee.
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DECEPTION
Othello and Iago
Stichomythia
Increasing tension, evasion
Othello: Is he not honest?
Iago: Honest, my lord?
Othello: Honest? Ay, honest.
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DECEPTION
Othello
Dramatic irony, simile
Othello doesn't realise the real monster, hidden thoughts are dangerous and ugly
He echoes me, as if there were some monster in this thought too hideous to be shown.
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EXCLUSION/FOREIGNNESS
Iago and Roderigo
Diction/cacophonies
Contempt for Othello as foreigner
Old black ram
Gross clasps of a lascivious Moor
The devil
Thick-lips
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EXCLUSION/FOREIGNNESS
Brabantio
Objectification, Juxtaposition
Othello seen as subhuman, contrasting evilness with innocence
The sooty bosom of such a thing as thou

Practised on her with foul charms, abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals.
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WOMEN'S INTELLIGENCE
Emilia
Mesodiplosis (we have some)
Despite their perception by society, women seek revenge like men
Though we have some grace, yet we have some revenge
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WOMEN'S INTELLIGENCE
Emilia
Women have desires as well
Their wives have sense like them; they see, they smell, and have their palates both for sweet and sour, as husbands have
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WOMEN'S INTELLIGENCE
Iago
Couplets
All women are manipulative, and use what they have to get what they want
If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, the one's for use, the other useth it.

There's none so foul and foolish thereunto, but does foul pranks which fair and wise do.
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DEPENDENCE ON MEN
Desdemona
Anaphora (so much)
Desdemona is loyal to Othello because he is her husband (women must be loyal to their men)
So much duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much challenge that I may profess due to the Moor my lord.
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DEPENDENCE ON MEN
Emilia
Desperate to please Iago - reference to the gods and natural order
What he will do with it, heaven knows, not I: nothing but to please his fantasy.
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JEALOUSY
Iago
Simile
Jealousy degrades/hurts us
Doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards...
nothing can or shall content my soul until I am evened with him, wife for wife.
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JEALOUSY
Iago
Personification
Jealousy can become almost autonomous, but we fuel it
it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
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TRUST
Othello
Gradatio
Defends his belief in Desdemona's virtue
I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; and on the proof, there is no more but this: Away at once with jealousy!
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TRUST
Iago
Simile
Being trusting makes you easily manipulated
The Moor is of a free and open nature, that thinks men honest that but seem to be so, and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are
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SELFISHNESS
Othello
Desdemona loves his stories, he loves her pity
She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.
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SELFISHNESS
Iago
His relationship with Othello is entirely self-serving
Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago; In following him, I follow but myself
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symbols - different for each character

handkerchief

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symbol - women subjected to men

willow song

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motif - race, flaws of characters, laws of nature

animal imagery

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motif - power of human thoughts and emotions, natural order

plant imagery