Othello quotes to memorise

Quotes under themes

Race

• “Barbary horse” - Iago - Racial Slur

• “Thick lips” - Roderigo - racial slur/stereotype

• “Her name …  begrimed and black as mine own face” - Othello - comparison

• “you the blacker devil!” - Emilia - Contrast, Religious Imagery, Racist Language

Jealousy

• “Set down the pegs” - Iago - Musical metaphor, irony

• “ It is the green-eyed monster “ - Iago - metaphor

• “This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart” - Othello -  Imagery, metaphor

• The handkerchief! The handkerchief!" - Othello - Repition

• “cunning whore of Venice” - Othello- metaphor 

• "My wife, my wife! What wife? I have no wife." - Othello - paradox/contradiction

Appearance vs Reality

• ‘I am not what I am’ -Iago- foreshadowing, biblical allusion (Gen 3:14) (devil)

• “Valiant Othello” - Duke -epithet, positive connotation

• "I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest." - Cassio - Irony

• “O brave Iago, honest and just” - Othello- Irony