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“That you, Iago, who has had my purse/ As if the strings were thine”

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Roderigo
Act 1 Scene 1
First dialogue
Immediate understanding of Iago’s character

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“I follow him to serve my turn upon him”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Plot against him
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
Already states his position

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“I am not what I am”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Transparency
Play’s deceptive and conflicting themes

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“‘Sblood”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
First thing he says
Shows class

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“thick-lips”

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Roderigo
Act 1 Scene 1
Othello
Racial slur

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“Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags./ Thieves! thieves!”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Possessions
Objectification

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“Zounds”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Class

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“you have lost half your soul”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Link to Song of Achilles

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“an old black ram/ Is tapping your white ewe”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Race
Age
Animal imagery

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“Barbary horse”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 1
Animal imagery

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“Thou art a villain”

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Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 1
Dramatic irony

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“O treason of the blood”

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Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 1
Goes against him

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“I love the gentle Desdemona”

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Othello
Act 1 Scene 2
First mention of her name
Declaration of his current feelings

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“My parts, my title, and my perfect soul”

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Othello
Act 1 Scene 2
Pride
Highlights insecurity later

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“Valiant Othello”

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Duke
Act 1 Scene 3
His position
Respect

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“I won his daughter”

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Othello
Act 1 Scene 3
A trophy
Objectification

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“A maiden never bold”

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Brabantio
Act 1 Scene 3
Doesn’t know her well
Untrue

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“Let me go with him”

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Desdemona
Act 1 Scene 3
Her assertiveness
Loyalty

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“A man he is of honesty and trust”

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Othello
Act 1 Scene 3
Dramatic irony

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“Put money in thy purse”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 3
Put your trust in me
Repeated
Manipulative

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“I hate the Moor”

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Iago
Act 1 Scene 3
Transparent

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“warlike Moor Othello”

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3 gentleman
Act 2 Scene 1

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“brave Othello”

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Montano
Act 2 Scene 1

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“Our great Captain’s Captain”

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Cassio
Act 2 Scene 1
Desdemona’s power over Othello

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“my fair warrior”
Othello Act 2 Scene 1 Feminine power
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“If it were now to die,/ ‘Twere now to be most happy”
Othello Act 2 Scene 1 Dramatic irony
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“that our loves and comforts should increase/ Even as our days do grow!”
Desdemona Act 2 Scene 1 Ironic Foreshadowing
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“sweet powers”
Othello Act 2 Scene 1 Feminine power
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“As honest as I am”
Iago Act 2 Scene 1 Irony Facade
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“wife for wife”
Iago Act 2 Scene 1 Toxic masculinity
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“Our General’s wife is now the General”
Iago Act 2 Scene 3 Desdemona’s power
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“out of her own goodness make the net/ That shall enmesh them all”
Iago Act 2 Scene 3 Uses her goodness against her
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“I will deny thee nothing”
Othello Act 3 Scene 3 Desdemona’s power over him
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“But I do love thee; and when I love thee not/Chaos is come again”
Othello Act 3 Scene 3 Foreshadowing
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“O, beware, my Lord, of jealousy;/It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on”
Iago Act3 Scene 3 Ironic Jealousy Foreshadowing
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“For she had eyes, and chose me”
Othello Act 3 Scene 3 Underlying Insecurities
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“I’ll see before I doubt”
Othello Act 3 Scene 3 Ironic Needs proof However never asks or believes her
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“She did deceive her father, marrying you”
Iago Act 3 Scene 3 Spinning Manipulating
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“O curse of marriage,/That we can call these delicate creatures ours,/And not their appetites”
Othello Act 3 Scene 3 Swift change Villianising female sexuality
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“Damn her, lewd minx”
Othello Act 3 Scene 3 Complete contrast with start of scene
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“made of no such baseness/As jealous creatures are”
Desdemona Act 3 Scene 4 Believes him to smart or good to be jealous Thinks highly of him
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“Zounds”
Othello Act 3 Scene 3 and 4 Imitating Iago’s speech
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“They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;/They eat us hungrily, and when they are full,/They belch us”
Emilia Act 3 Scene 4 Comments on women being used as sexual objects
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“My lord is not my lord”
Desdemona Act 3 Scene 4 She can sense him changing
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“Breaks out to savage madness”
Iago Act 4 Scene 1 Animalistic and primitive characterisation
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“Hang her! I do but say that she is: so delicate with her needle, an admirable musician”
Othello Act 4 Scene 1 Conflict
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“Devil! [Striking her.]”
Othello Act 4 Scene 1 Savage characterisation
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“I have not deserv’d this”
Desdemona Act 4 Scene 1 Out spoken Stands up for self
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“she is honest,/Lay down my soul at stake”
Emilia Act 4 Scene 2 Her unwavering loyalty
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“You wife, my lord; your true and loyal wife”
Desdemona Act 4 Scene 2 Constant and unwavering love and loyalty Complete transparency
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“Thou art false as hell”
Othello Act 4 Scene 2 Religious language Denies her after previous promise
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“Whore”, “public commoner”, “impudent strumpet”, “ cunning whore of Venice”
Othello Act 4 Scene 2 Debases her completely
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“Let husbands know/Their wives have sense like them”
Emilia Act 4 Scene 3 Comments on male superiority and double standards
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“O brave Iago, honest and just”
Othello Act 5 Scene 1 Ironic Right after Iago stabs Cassio
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“Thy bed, lust-stain’d, shall with lust’s blood be spotted”
Othello Act 5 Scene 1 Marriage bed
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“O inhuman dog!”
Roderigo Act 5 Scene 1 Truth of Iago ‘Stabbed in the back’
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“not she’d her blood,/Nor scar that whiter skin”
Othello Act 5 Scene 2 Conflict
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“A guiltless death I die”
Desdemona Act 5 Scene 2 Reveals truth
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“O, the more angel she,/ And you the blacker devil!”
Emilia Act 5 Scene 2 Her standing against men Assertive
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“An honourable murderer, if you will;/For nought I did in hate, but all in honour”
Othello Act 5 Scene 2 Doesn’t accept what he’s done
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