key quotations

memorise

incompatibility of military heroism n love:

• “black ram” (1.1.87)

• “my services, which I have done the signiory/Shall out-tongue his complaints” (1.2.19)

• “look to her, moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/She has deceived her father, and may thee” (brabantio - 1.3.293)

• “O my fair warrior!” (2.1.179)

• “excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul/but i do love thee! and when i love thee not/chaos is come again” (3.3.90)

• “for she had eyes and chose me” (3.3.192)

• “haply for am I black/And have not those soft parts of conversation/That chamberers have, or for I am declined/Into the vale of years” (3.3.267)

• “Farewell: Othello’s occupation’s gone” (3.3.360)

• “i’ll tear her all to pieces” (3.3.434)

• “methinks it should be now a huge eclipse/of sun and moon” (5.2.98)

• “she’s like a liar gone to burning hell:/’twas i that killed her” (5.2.127)

dangers of isolation:

• “the moor is of a free and open nature/that thinks men honest that but seem to be so” (1.3.398)

• “she did deceive her father marrying you” (3.3.209)

• “i nothing, but to please his fantasy” (3.3.303)

• “trifles light as air/are to the jealous confirmations strong/as proofs of holy writ” (3.3.324)

• “avaunt, be gone, thou hast set me on the rack!” (3.3.338)

• “i think my wife be honest, and think she is not/I think that thou art just, and think thou art not” (3.3.387)

• “now art thou my lieutenant (othello).” | “i am your own for ever” (3.3.481)

• “this is a subtle whore/a closet, lock and key, of villainous secrets” (4.2.22)

• “hath she forsook so many noble matches…To be called whore? would it not make one weep?” (4.2.127)

• “and his unkindness may defeat my life/but never taint my love” (4.2.162)

• “but i do think it is their husbands’ faults/If wives do fall.” (4.3.85)

• “a guiltless death i die” (5.2.121)

jealousy:

• “my parts, my title and my perfect soul/Shall manifest me rightly” (1.2.31)

• “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/ She has deceived her father, and may thee” (1.3.293)

• “my life upon her faith” (1.3.295)

• “excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul/but i do love thee! and when i love thee not/chaos is come again” (3.3.90)

• “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on” (3.3.168)

• “haply for am I black/And have not those soft parts of conversation/That chamberers have, or for I am declined/Into the vale of years” (3.3.267)

• “trifles light as air/are to the jealous confirmations strong/as proofs of holy writ” (3.3.324)

• “i’ll tear her all to pieces” (3.3.434)

deception & treachery:

• “but i will wear my heart upon my sleeve/for daws to peck at: i am not what i am” (1.1.63)

• “an old black ram/Is tupping your white ewe” (1.1.88)

• “she loved me for the dangers i had passed” (1.3.168)

• “She has deceived her father, and may thee” (1.3.293)

• “the moor is of a free and open nature/that thinks men honest that but seem to be so” (1.3.398)

• “excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul/but i do love thee! and when i love thee not/chaos is come again” (3.3.90)

• “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on” (3.3.168)

• “haply for am I black/And have not those soft parts of conversation” (3.3.267)

justice:

• “i think my wife be honest, and think she is not/I think that thou art just, and think thou art not” (3.3.387)

• “good, good, the justice of it pleases; very good!” (4.1.206)

• “i will be hanged if some eternal villain…have not devised this slander” (4.2.132)

• “o balmy breath, that dost almost persuade/justice to break her sword!” (5.2.16)

• “methinks it should be now a huge eclipse/of sun and moon” (5.2.98)

• “a guiltless death I die” (5.2.121)

• “she was too fond of her most filthy bargain!” (5.2.153)

• “when you shall these unlucky deeds relate/speak of me as I am…of one that loved not wisely, but too well” (5.2.339)