Artistic impulse
‘Hell and night/ Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light.’
Othello - unconscious knowledge
‘Tis monstrous. Iago who began’t?’
wise
I should be wise, for honesty’s a fool’.
words
‘weig’st thy words before thou giv’st them breath.’
ear and what line foreshadows this?
“abuse Othello’s ear” and “pour this pestilence into [it]”
‘But words are words. I never yet did hear
That the bruised heart was piercd through the ears.’ (Brabantio)