Othello Flashcards

Question

she must...

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she must die, else she'll betray more men - othello 5.2

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Have you prayed tonight, Desdemon? 5.2

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ruled by senate not king/ queen cosmopolitan - culturally diverse

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dead? ay to me, she is abused, stolen from me and corrupted by spells and medicines - brabantio

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she has deceived her father, and may thee

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let her have your voice - othello 1.3

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She was in love, and he she loved proved mad And did forsake her - D

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And she died singing it. That song tonight Will not go from my mind The willow tree is symbolic of sadness and mourning

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i know my price - iago

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Amoral Motiveless malignity -collarage

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Amoral Motiveless malignity -collarage

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Strike us - Emilia

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Strike us - Emilia

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Cassios position

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For the dangers I had passed and I loved her that she did pity them 1.3

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Pledge of love Token of undying love in medieval texts not only a pledge, symbol of loyalty and deep emotional connection to his mother She, dying, gave it me; and bid me, when my fate would have me wive, to give it her.

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Whore of Venice that married othello

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Othellos visage in his mind

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- direct action -told in dramatic way -contains character containing a fatal flat that causes his downfall -jealousy -coping of the tragedy is to to bring about catharsis Character < plot - never has a chance of reversing fortune -audience spend the play willing for othello to find the truth and info to be punished - psychological torment is a deliberate ingredient of aristotles -feel fear and pity, sympathy # disappointment at the end of the mistake is learnt a second too late How else will we learn moral lesson -

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Black man who has converted to Christianity Cannot be considered high stays Raises questions about society as moors were Muslim Speaks about his redemption = possibly his conversion to chiristianity

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Referred to as Moor Thick lips Moorship

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questioning cassios manhood

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No longer idealises love / possessive/ animalistic/D’# loss of power/ motor of appetite

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my title my perfect soul Huberis triplet

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Her to pieces Rational to irrational, conforms to racial stereotypes Wants to destroy her body Warlike in domestics life Object to be disposed of

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Plucked th e rose I cannot give it vital growth again Romance truns to death and destruction/ easy to pick a flower or kill a woman

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Not what I am Biblical reference/ duplicitous/ flips heave,y reference

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now now very now an old Black ram is tapping your white ewe Dehumanises/ racist/ as if it is inflicted ups on her on unconsentuas Nmakes her seem innocent Nits at insecurity

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*His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love desdemona lack of anagnorisis, tragic victim

Answer 30

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on iago Foreshadows Othello’s downfall through jealousy — a central tragic theme.

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Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content! This repetition of “farewell” is a dramatic expression of Othello’s mental unraveling. Once jealousy takes root, peace is gone. His identity, once built on honour and discipline, becomes consumed by doubt and suspicion. This is the turning point (peripeteia) in the tragic arc — a descent from reason into chaos.

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turning point

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arithmataician... that never set a squadron in the field mere prattle without practice

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you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.

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Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes In an extravagant and wheeling stranger

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This accident is not unlike my dream light.. i say light language of dreams - appearance v reality

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But that I love the gentle Desdemona, I would not ... confine For the sea’s worth. first to speak about a woman in a loving way rather than objectfying

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foul charms

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She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted By spells and medicines

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someone who behaves in a manner calculated to impress or mislead others

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I know my price I am worth no worse a place

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to serve my turn upon him

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But that I love the gentle Desdemona… for the sea’s worth”

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That thou hast practised on her with foul charm | otherness

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Your son-in-law is far more fair than black” good vs evil - duke

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put money in thy purse” - i “I will sell all my land”- r

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“My fool my purse” confesses that he is using R “my sport and profit”

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valiant moor - senator

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Hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light.” foil character of othello, sololiquy

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My very noble and approved good masters calm defence

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“If you do find me foul in her report” “Let your sentence fall upon my life” if D has one poor thing to report about Othello, he is willing to be sentenced to death

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Sold to slavery” D is intrigued by his otherness - “twas pitiful twas wondrous pitiful” Othello admits storytelling can be seductive, and Iago similarly persuades him later on power of storytelling

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She loved me for the dangers I have passed and I love her that she did pity them; this is the only witchcraft I have used”

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“And of the Cannibals that each others eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Grew beneath their shoulders”

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I thrive in this lady’s love and she in mine pure, inevitable tragic outcome

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“She wished that God had made her such a man”

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never so bold-R trangression

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“My noble father, I do perceive a divided duty, to you I’m bound for life and education” - women in this society were always obedient to some man, those who didn't keep their women obedient were failures- B perceives this as disloyalty to men and warns Othello

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Othello is depicted as too trusting, “free and open nature” Othello’s weakness is that he doesnt understand that appearance can hide reality

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Iago derives his sense of self and manhood in his ability to manipulate others, director of the play, puppeteer

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“I saw Othello’s visage in his mind, And to his honours and his valiant parts” interconnected, honou and bravery

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“Not to please the palate of my appetite”

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“It is my shame to be so fond” - R, embarrassed to be in love, weakness of masculinity to be emotionally vulnerable

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“They were parted with foul and violent tempest” - foreshadowing

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Cassio takes D’s hand “With as little a web as this I will ensnare as great a fly as Cassio” - Iago

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“Our wars are done” the real war is just beginning

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Depicts Cassio as a knave (villain) and a posturer (deceptive, misleading), quite an apt description of himself

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“She’s full of most blessed condition” - R doesn't believe Iago when he says shes unfaithful to Othello, correctly interprets brushing hands as an act of courtesy Iago is able to use Roderigo's jealousy to warp his understanding, to mistake appearance for reality.

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“loveliness in favor, sympathy in years, manners and beauties” Otehllo’s insecurities are what Iago describe to be what D will seek after being bored with Othello, none of which he will provide

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“The divine desdemona” - cassio

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I follow him to serve my turn upon him

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“My parts, my title, and my perfect soul Shall manifest me rightly” Othello, when being advised by Iago to hide Othello seems secure in himself despite the challenges towards his manhood Othello remains confident that his honourable service will outweigh his outsider status

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Iago reveals his heavily patriarchal view of women Believes their duty is “to suckle fools and chronicle small beer,” raise fools, and tally household expenditures Iago portrays all women, whether beautiful, ugly, smart, or foolish, as generally deceptive and sex-starved. But he also says that a woman with perfect virtue would be boring. Light banter, amusing tone, Iago is very liked by most characters, witty and charming

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profane lamguage, female sexuality, infidelity ,

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Iago reveals he believes Othello has had an affair with Emilia “Diet my revenge, For that I do suspect the lusty Moor Hath leaped into my seat.” “Wife for wife”

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Alcohol acts as a deceiver of reality “wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used”

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You advise me well” heavy dramatic irony, Iago is to blame for Cassio’s demotion

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His soul is so enfettered to her love, That she may make, unmake, do what she list” Othello’s hamartia is his all-consuming love for D

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“If thou dost love me show me your thoughts” heavy irony, Iago will destroy othello with his “thoughts” Makes himself look innocent by telling Othello's ‘suspicions’ and then arguing that they cannot possibly be true” “You know i love you” “I think you dost” Echos what Iago says to Cassio in act 2 s3

Answer 80

Mirrors what Iago says “But jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.”

Answer 81

Bianca's jealousy of Cassio provides a contrast for the jealousy that Othello feels for Desdemona—demonstrating that women are also subject to the jealousy that Emilia, earlier in this scene, attributes only to men

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be what they seem is he not honest? - cassio, quick to assume the worst, when iago hints subtly at D's adultery

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of great ones, tis destiny unshunnable, like death inevitability of suffering for powerful men who attract attention

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thee not chaos comes again othello professing his love to D, saying the world will end before he stops loving her, interrupted right away by "my noble lord" Iago uses flattery to plant seeds of doubt he speaks with open ended questions,

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"her first resemblance of the moor" OTHELLO DROPS IT "My wayward husband hath a hundred times wooed me to steal it" Emilia, desite being misused by her husband wants to please him

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echoes the illusions iago produces

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" he conjured her she should ever keep it" despite knowing this she remains silent " I am nothing to please his fancy right after this scene iago calls her a "foolish wife", "good wench"

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lady she'll run when she lacks it

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lewd minx, lusty flirt - othello abt D

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gape on, behold her topped makes othello picture it, similar echique used with Brabantio "death and damination!"

Answer 91

"we must hide our loves" circumstation, unverifiable evidence, but othello is overcome with jelousy and accepts it

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"I am yours forever" climax, he has achived his goal, and destoyed othello's manhood/ honour in the process

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...robbed, not wanting what is stolen, let him not know and he's not robbed at all" rather be ignornat than jealous

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proof" wants solid evidence, reality

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occupication is gone" loss of identity, his military career is finished, his wife is unfaithful, connects to loss of his manhood

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call him back, but shall be shortly?" as shown in 1.3, D is independant against her father, proves she's willing to take part in a political debate

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eyes and chose me

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before I doubt, when i doubt , prove" hands iago the perfect plan

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with her or jelousy has to get rid of her or his jealousy, ending foreshadowed

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YET of proof

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I am abused and my relief must be to loathe her oh curse of marriage perepitia

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should hold her loathed... emilia is present for this scene, could have easily avoided the tragedy but didn't want to disobey iago

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duplicity of the word "lie" explored in a comedic manner

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jealous. it is a monster... born upon itslelf" mirrors what Othello says Emilia only attributed this to men, but biana in this scene is jealous of cassio

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to have him see me womaned

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shares the duplicitous traits with iago

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young and sweating devil that commonly rebels" you need some disciplne for someone with these kinds of hands commonly rebels against authoruty

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"let cassio be recieved again" "the handkercheif!" D plays rght into Iago's hands, D is bringing cassio up in goo faith, but othello is losing his mind

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hungerly, and when they are full, they belch us - emilia treament of women 3.4

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is not my lord 3.4

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whore, serves as a foil to D, who is virtuous "seling her desires.. byus herself bread an clothes" "coustomer" - prostitute

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.... the mouth" "savage madness" has a seizure, speech fragmented, consumed by jelousy, acts in an animalistic manner he's been described in 4.1

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othello "devil [strikes her]" in front o iago, serendipitously for iago "truly an obedient lady, i do beseech your lordship call her back

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how, how oft, how long ago... cope your wife"

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"get me some poison, iago" "do it not with poison, strangle her in bed" 4.1

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"has turned to stone"

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at the beginning og the play, othello was the centre of action, military hero, now his honor is gone, suks around the periphery, peeping tom

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...light of brain? Is this the noble moor who our enates call sufficient?" Lordovico after othello strikes D 4.1

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a fine woman, a sweet woman nay you must forget that 4.1

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name iago? what name fair lady?

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iago promises D that othello is simply overwhelmed by the news of war ect

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that thou dealst justly with me your words and performances are not kin together for the first time asserts dominance, acts on free will, wants do something that woudn;t benifit iago no use to iago, so will be killed 4.2

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my lord, your tue and loyal wife 4.2 public commoner imputent strumpet the cunning whore of vence that married othello

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Your words and performances are not kin together”

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The Moor’s abused by some most villainous knave Emilia almost has it figured out

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”she was in love, and he she loved proved mad and did foresake her” “That song tonight will not go from my mind”

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do abuse their husbands in such gross kinds” naiive

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henever asked if she is unfaithful she returns to her chistian faith “no, by this heavenly light” | 4.3

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not in this heavenly light, I might do it as well in the dark” 4.3

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“I do not think there is such woman” “Yes there are dozens” “Husbands faults”

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We have the same pallet for sweet and sour” Emilia 4.3

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D’s purity is juxtaposed here, foil of Emilia,”not to pick bad from bad, but from bad mend”

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”I have no devotion to the deed, and yet he hath given me satisfying reasons” Iagos manipulation of R

Answer 134

this is the night that either makes me or forboedes me quite Iago's reference to the night as a dramatic climax once again underscores his self-consciously chosen role as "director."

Answer 135

Iagos actions are cowardly, sends R ahead of him and attacks Cassio from behind Othello once again misinterprets what’s happened, to Iagos benefit 5.1

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Although other characters dismiss bianca as a promiscuous woman, she shows real affection for Cassio

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”my only sin is my love for you” 5.2

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The more angel she and you the blacker devil

Answer 139

The speed with which Othello is transformed from respected general to reviled outsider reveals the strength of prejudices more or less repressed by other characters throughout the majority of the play. Once there's reason to exclude him from the social group, Othello quickly is diminished to the status of outsider among the Venetians.

Answer 140

“Demi-devil” -Iagos true for, is finally realised by iothello 5.3

Answer 141

By refusing to listen to D’s denial of infedelity, Othello reveals how fully he has lost his independence, scummed to Iagos web He doesn’t let her live longer so she can prove her innocence, consumed by the “monster” of jealousy

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Can’t even differentiate between reality, mixed up E and D’s voices

Answer 143

he here defines himself as an "insider," a Christian, against the "outsider" or enemy, the Turk. Yet, at the same time, when he tells of stabbing the Turk, he also stabs himself. In effect, he is defining himself as both an insider and an outsider, someone who defended Venice but was nevertheless seen as both a possible enemy and an animal by other Venetians.

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”fear nothing” “Be bold” Iagos commands to R 5.2

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First time Iago doesn’t seem sure of himself “there I stand in much peril”

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Wants to be remembered honourfully “One who loved not wisely but too well”

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“I must weep but they are cruel tears” no pity

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“Have you prayed tonight Dresden a” “I will not killthy unprepared spirit “I would not have thee linger in thy pain”

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Guiltless death I die” Still obedient in death when Emilia asks her who did this she replies “nobody comment me to my kind lord

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“Charm your tounge I will not charm my round I am bound to speak Emilia disobeys Iago by telling Othello the truth Othello killed D bc he thought she betrayed him Iago killed Emilia because she did betray him-for the greater good, far more violent None of the women in the play act as sexual betrayers

Answer 151

posturer dexterous control

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Shakespeare uses this as a microcosm of the tragic arc

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In modern-day society, the audience tends to have a negative perception of characters who criticize the hero. However, in Jacobean times, it is possible that the audience would have agreed with racially motivated insults.

Answer 154

Othello seems obsessed with Desdemona's whiteness, while she plays down his blackness. Othello refers to Desdemona as "sweet" and "fair" most of the time. He seems constantly to think of her body and her color, "fair lady", “fair devil”

Answer 155

revenge tragedy warns the audience to avoid following any machivellian urges they might have if they want to avoid downfall like othello who looses everything he had; his wife, his position and his life.

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To play and go to bed to work -iago

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Period of romance and dating

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I myself, reflects tragic internalisation of blame, passivity in death

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3.3 iago manipulated Othello, dramatic turning point

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Is misread as deceit, results in Othello’s jealous, death

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Professional jealousy

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Othello’s readiness to respond to the temptation scene, innate within him

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Othello perceives iago as honest as do all the other characters, not Othello’s fault, Emphasises vulnerabilit of newly weds

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A dishonour she didn’t commit

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Views love and sex as transactional, mocks romance, suspects everyone is infidelity, weaponises desire

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Disillusioned view of love, sees hoe males desires controls woman’s fates, in her honesty represents mature and grounded love, sacrificed for the truth

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Tragic lover, his deep and expressive love becomes a possessive, transition of love to jealousy, erotic desire becomes fulfilled by doubt and fear. Sees murder as an act of love “ill kill thee now and love thee later”

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Unconditional love, punished for loving too boldly and purely,

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Reinterpreted as flirtation / deceit, female honestly cannot survive male suspicion

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Master manipulator, curates appearances to control reality, never lies outright, poses as “honest” confidant when is the dictator of the tragic fall!"

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sexual intimacy with another man, married woman

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beauty wits and fortunes d’s sacrifixes

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sir… sir… sir

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eponymous hero

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Say I play the villain even this advice i give is free and honest

Answer 176

Why, then, tomorrow night, or Tuesday morn. On Tuesday noon, or night, or Wednesday morn. 70 I prithee name the time, but let it not Exceed three days.

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if someone steals my good reuptation from me makes me poor indeed places this above theft of money

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iago! oh inhuman dog!

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cassio, cassio

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shame on you

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anagnoriss

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honour outlive honesty

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cold my girl even like my chastity

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thinks he’s to blame, doesn’t kill iago

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I will never speak again

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in doubt is to be once resolved

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