Iago’s Jealousy
-A1:S1“That never set a squadron in the field”/”little more than a spinster”/”mere prattle without practice”
A1:S3- I “To get his place and plume up my will”
-A2:S1 “With as little web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Michael Cassio.” Iago Aside
-A2:S1 “Doth like a poisonous mineral knaw my inwards” Iago’s Soliloquy (13)
-A3:S3 “O beware, my lord, of jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/the meat it feeds on.”
-A3:S3 “There are a kind of men so loose of soul”/”laid his leg Over my thigh”
-A4:S1 “unbookish jealousy”
Othello’s Jealousy
-A3:S3 “Away at once with love or jealousy!”
-A3:S3 “Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses.”
-A3:S3 “I’ll tear her all to pieces!”
-A3:S4 “Heaven keep that monster from Othello’s mind.”
-A4:S1 “How shall I murder him, Iago?”
-A4:S2 “With who?”
A5:S2- “one not easily jealous but, being wrought”
Cassio and Jealousy
Cassio’s status, security, and masculinity triggers the jealousy of the other male characters.
-A1:S1 “One Michael Cassio, a Florentine”
Emilia’s Jealousy
-A3:S3 “my wayward husband”
-A3:S3 “he conjured her she should ever keep it”
-A3:S3 “run mad”
-A3:S3 “what will you give me now”
-A4:S3 “break out in peevish jealousies throwing restraint upon us”
-A4:S3 “have not we affections, desire for sport, and frailty, as men have?”
Iago’s Insecurity and Masculinity
-A1:S3 “But I, for mere suspicion in that kind Will do as if for surety” soliloquy
-A1:S2 “Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land carrack;”/“I do not understand.”
A2:S1- “I do suspect the lusty Moor Hath leaped into my seat”
-A3:S3 “What do you here alone?”
Othello’s Security and Insecurity
A1:S2- O “Let him do his spite; My services…Shall out-tongue his complaints.”
A1:S2- “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them” (summary of play)
A3:S3- “I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her”
A3:S3- sight “Is she be false, O then heaven mocks itself; I’ll not believe it.”
A4:S1- “I will be found most cunning in my patience, but - dost thou hear - most bloody.”
Iago’s Manipulation/Deception and Intelligence
A1:S1 I “‘Tis the curse of service”/”I follow him to serve my turn upon him.”
A1:S1 I “Others…throwing but shows of service on their lords…such a one do I profess myself.”
A1:S1 “I am not what I am.”
A1:S2- I “I had thought to have yerked him here, under the ribs” / “spoke such scurvy…Against your honour”.
A1:S3- I “put money in thy purse.” ×5 (+3 other mentions of money) “I’ll sell all my land.”
A1:S3- I “It was a violent commencement, and thou shalt see an answerable sequestration” (prose)
A1:S3- I “If thou canst cuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport.” (Equivalent to cheating)
A1:S3- I about C “He hath a person and a smooth dispose To Be suspected”
A1:S3- I “The Moor is of a free and open nature…And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are.” (Break, thought)
A2:S1- I “He takes her by the palm. Ay, well said; whisper. With as little web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.” (Aside, no stage directions)
A2:S1- I to R “They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together…” (prose)
A2:S3- I “‘Tis a night of revels”
A2:S3- “If consequence do but approve my dream”
A2:S3- “I learned it in England, where indeed they are most potent in potting.” (Stories, trust, service, friend)
A2:S3- “He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar…I fear the trust Othello puts him in” (verse)
A2:S3- “Hold ho, lieutenant, sir; Montano”
A2:S3- “Our general’s wife is now the general.”/”so apt, so blest a disposition”
A3:S3- “Ha! I like not that.”/”I cannot think it That he would steal away so guilty-like”
A3:S3- “Think, my lord?”/”…By heaven, he echoes me”
A3:S3- “Men should be what they seem”
A3:S3- “observe her well with Cassio”
A3:S3- “I see this hath a little dashed your spirits.”/”I fear it has”/”My lord, I see you’re moved.”
A3:S3- “(He kneels)”/”Do not rise yet.”
A3:S3- “My friend is dead…But let her live.”
A3:S4- “Can he be angry?”
A4:S1- “Will you think so?”/”Think so, Iago?”
A4:S1- O “As doth the raven o’er the infected house”
A4:S2- I to R “now I see there’s mettle in thee”
A5:S1- “Every way makes my gain”
A5:S1- “This is the night That either makes me, or fordoes me quite.”
A5:S2- O “Then murder’s out of tune”
A5:S2- “what you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word.”
Iago and Conflict/Chaos
A1:S1- R “Tush, never tell me, I take it much unkindly” (medias res)
A1:S1- I “In following him, I follow but myself.” (Slave to his own selfishness)
A1:S1- I “dire yell, As when, by night and negligence, the fire Is spied in populous cities” (multiple meanings)
A1:S2- B “Down with him, thief!”
A1:S3- I “Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.” (Prose, Ambition)
A2:S1- I “practicing upon his peace and quiet Even to madness.”
A2:S3- I “flock of drunkards.” (mid-scene soliloquy)
A2:S3- “this fair island”
A2:S3- “I play the villain…How am I then a villain…Divinity of hell!”
A2:S3- “I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear”
A2:S3- “out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.”
A3:S3- “(Going)”/”Why did I marry?”/”(Returning)”
A3:S3- O “Arise, black vengeance”
A3:S3- “Now art thou my lieutenant.”
A4:S1- “My medicine, work!”
A5:S1- “(Enter Iago, with a light.)”
A5:S1- “O inhuman dog!”
A5:S1- “I do suspect this trash To be a party in this injury.” (Opportunistic nature thrives in chaos)
Iago and Racism
A1:S1- I “his Moorship’s ancient” (satirise)
A1:S1- I “very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe”/”the devil will make a grandsire of you”
A1:S1- “You’ll have courses for cousins, and jennets for germans.” (Prose)
A2:S3- “So will I turn her virtue into pitch”
A4:S1- “If not, he foams at the mouth…savage madness.”
A4:S2- “he goes into Mauritania and takes away with him”
Iago’s Misogyny
A2:S1- I “…players in you housewifery, and housewives in your beds.” (Prose)
A2:S1- I “what delight shall she have to look on the devil? When the blood is made dull with the act of sport”
A4:S1- “There’s millions…lie in those unproper beds Which they dare swear peculiar.”
A4:S1- “By selling her desires Buys herself bread and clothes. It is a creature”
A5:S1- “Good gentlemen”
Iago as a Christian
A1:S1 I “Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end.” (Unafraid of eternal consequences)
A1:S1- I about B “Poison his delight…Plague him with flies…vexation”
A1:S1- “I do hate him as I do hell’s pains”
A1:S2- “By Janus” (Roman)
A1:S3- “Hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light.” (Jealousy monster link)
A3:S3- “O grace! O heaven forgive me! Are you a man? Have you a soul?”
A5:S2- “If that thou be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee.”/”I bleed, sir, but not killed.”
Othello and Race
A1:S2- B “an abuser of the world”
A3:S3- O “For she had eyes and chose me.”
A3:S3- I “In Venice they do let God see the pranks They dare not show their husbands.”
A3:S3- “May fall to match you with her country forms, And happily repent.”
A3:S3- “Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation”
Othello’s Masculinity
A4:S1- I “With her, on her, what you will.”
A4:S1- O “A hornèd man’s a monster and a beast.”
A4:S1- “Did he confess it?”/”Good sir, be a man”
A5:S2- “my great revenge Had stomach for them all.”
Othello’s Reputation
Initially, Othello’s reputation proves his worth in a way that Iago’s doesn’t.
A1:S1- I “Another of his fathom they have none”
A1:S2- C “The senate hath sent about three several quests To search you out.”
A2:S1- Mo “warlike Moor Othello”/”a worthy governor.”
A4:S1- L “My lord, this would not be believed in Venice”
A4:S1- “I am sorry that I am deceived in him.”
A5:S2- “Then you must speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well…perplexed in the extreme”
Othello’s Initial State (naive, loyal, humble, proud)
A1:S2- O “Which, when I know that boasting is an honour, I shall provulgate”
A1:S2- O “My parts, my title, and my perfect soul Shall manifest me rightly.”
A1:S2- “you shall command more with years Than with your weapons.”
A1:S3- “Rude am I in speech”
A1:S3- “My Desdemona must I leave to thee”
A1:S3- “That thinks men honest that but seem to be so”
A2:S3- “Iago, who began’t?”
A3:S3- “to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.”
Othello’s Values (loyalty and integrity)
A2:S3- O to C “Let’s teach ourselves that honourable stop”
A2:S3- O “he dies upon his motion. Silence that dreadful bell”
A2:S3- “On thy love, I charge thee.”
Othello and Gender
A1:S3- “Let her speak”
A1:S3- “I therefore beg it not To please the palate of my appetite…But to be free and bounteous to her mind.”
A3:S3- “O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!”
A4:S1- “If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears,…crocodile.”
A4:S2- “yet she’s a simple bawd”
Othello’s Conflict
A3:S3- “Thou hast set me on the rack.”
A3:S3- “Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!…Farewell! Othello’s occupation’s gone.”
A3:S3- “Give me the ocular proof”
A3:S3- “I think my wife be honest, and I think she is not”
A3:S4- “Well my good lady. (Aside) O hardness to dissemble!”
A4:S1- “Confess? Handkerchief? O devil! (He falls into a trance.)”
A4:S1- “Iago beckons me.”
A4:S1- “a sweet woman!”/”…let her rot and perish”
A4:S1- “Hang her.…so delicate with her needle, an admirable musician”
A4:S1- “lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again”
A4:S1- “The justice of it pleases”
A5:S2- “Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men.”
A5:S2- “When I have plucked thy rose, I cannot give it vital growth again; It needs must wither. I’ll smell it on the tree.”
A5:S2- “Justice breaks her sword!”
A5:S2- “I will kill thee And love thee after.”
A5:S2- “I would not kill thy unpreparèd spirit”
A5:S2- “Where should Othello go?”
A5:S2- “I took by th’throat the circumcisèd dog And smote him thus.”
Othello and Desdemona’s Relationship
A1:S2- “I love the gentle Desdemona…would not…confine For the sea’s worth.”
A1:S2- B “hast practiced on her with foul charms, Abused her delicate youth”
A1:S3- O speech 1 “It is most true; true I have married her;” (In a speech of imperfect iambic pentameter, when De is mentioned directly =10 syllables- stability.)
A1:S3- “She gave me for my pains a world of sighs”
A1:S3- “Upon this hint I spake: She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.”
A1:S3- “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceived her father and may thee.”/”My life upon her faith!”
A2:S1- “they were parted With foul and violent tempest.”
A2:S1- C “our great captain’s captain”
A2:S1- “O, my fair warrior!”/”My dear Othello!”
A2:S1- I “I’ll set down the pegs that make this music, As honest as I am.”
A3:S3- “I wonder in my soul What you would ask me that I should deny”/”I will deny thee nothing.”
A3:S3- “her jesses were my dear heart strings”
A3:S3- “damn her…the fair devil”
A3:S4- “‘twas the hand that gave away my heart”/”A liberal hand!”
A4:S1- “The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.” (Eden)
A4:S2- “O, thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet”
A5:S2- “Alas, he is betrayed, and I undone”
A5:S2- “I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.”
Desdemona Undeserving of Fate/Victim
A1:S3- De “if I be left behind A moth of piece, and he go to the war, The rights for which I love him are bereft me…Let me go with him.”
A3:S1- E to C “he protests he loves you, And needs no other suitor but his likings”
A3:S3- “(she drops it)”
A3:S4- “It is not lost”
A3:S4- “The handkerchief!”/”I pray, talk me of Cassio.” (Stychomythia)
A3:S4- “My advocation is not now in tune: My lord is not my lord”
A4:S1- “Why sweet Othello?…(He strikes her.) I have not deserved this.”
A4:S2- “I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.”
A4:S2- “ignorant sin”
A4:S2- “his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.”
A5:S2- “I never did…never loved Cassio…never gave him token”
Desdemona’s Myopia and Denial/Loyalty to Othello
A1:S3- “I saw Othello’s visage in his mind”
A3:S4- “I think the sun where he was born Drew all such humours from him.”
A3:S4- “Something sure of state…Hath puddled his clear spirit”
Desdemona as a Christian
A4:S2- “No, as I am a Christian”
A4:S2- “I am a child to chiding.”
A4:S2- “Am I that name, Iago?”
A4:S2- “If any such there be, heaven pardon him.”
A5:S2- “Nobody; I myself. Farewell.”
Desdemona’s Love and Relationships
A1:S3- O+B ‘“I won his daughter.”/”A maiden never bold”’
A1:S3- O speech 2 “with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse”
A1:S3- De “I would not there reside To put my father in impatient thoughts By being in his eye”
A3:S3- “If I do vow a friendship, I’ll perform it To the last article.”
A3:S4- “I had rather lose my purse Full of crusadoes”
Othello’s Love and Relationships
A1:S3- O “let her speak of me…If you do find me foul in her report…let your sentence Even fall upon my life.”
A1:S3- “How I did thrive in this fair lady’s love, And she in mine.”
A2:S3- “the best of you Shall sink in my rebuke”/”he that is approved of this offence…Shall lose me.”
A2:S3- “All’s well now, sweeting”
A3:S3- “when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.”
