Othello Quotes difficult

• Othello (1.2) "My parts, my title, my perfect soul"


  Hubris/ defying racial stereotypes/ blindness to racial stereotypes/ motif of soul
• Othello (1.2) "Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them"


  Biblical reference/ link to heaven not hell/ well spoken/ defies racial stereotypes/ control + rationality
• Othello (2.1) "May the winds blow till they have wakened death"


  Othello idealises their relationship/ wishes for more storms (in their relationship)/ Introduces the chaos of Cyprus/ foreshadows death/ links to fate or water current
• Othello (3.3) "O curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!"


  No longer idealises love/ possessive/ animalistic/ belittling/ Desdemona's loss of power/ motif of appetite
• Othello (3.3) "I'll tear her all to pieces"


  Rational to irrational/ conforms to racial stereotypes/ wants to destroy he body/ warlike in domestic life/ object to be disposed of
• Othello (3.4) "there's magic in the web of it"


  Language mirrors Iago (web)/ conforming to racial stereotypes/ using magic/ handkerchief manipulation story
• Othello (4.1) "I will chop her into messes"


  Destroying her body/ racial stereotypes/ uncontrolled
• Othello (5.2) "when I have plucked the rose I cannot give it vital growth again"


  Romance turns to death and destruction/ easy to pick a flower or kill a woman/ he realises it is final
• Iago (1.1) "I am not what I am"


  Biblical reference/ duplicitous/ flips heavenly reference
• Iago (1.1) "An old black ram is tupping your white ewe"


  Dehumanised/ racist/ as if it is inflicted upon her or un consensual/ makes her seem innocence/ hints at insecurities (age and race)
• Iago (2.1) "you are pictures out of doors, Bells in your parlours, wild-cats in your kitchens"


  Misogynistic view/ women need to be tamed/ domestic vs public realm
• Iago (2.1) "Doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards"


  Motiveless malignancy/ eaten away by jealousy like Othello/ his chaos will spread like poison
• Iago (2.3) "And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all"


  Lack of humanity/ manipulates her goodness/ sets her up as a tragic victim/ he will trap them in his chaos/ motif of net or web
• Iago (3.3) "jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on."


  It is a manipulated truth/ manipulates Othello's hamartia/ motif of monster it is actions not looks that are monstrous/ feeds like how Iago has an appetite for chaos
• Desdemona (1.3) "A moth of peace... Let me go with him"


  She doesn't wants to be objectified, a light in the dark/ starts the play with power and a voice/ but only due to Othello needing her
• Desdemona (2.1) "our great captain's captain"


  Iago dislikes the idea of a woman in power/ Desdemona is empowered at the beginning of the play/ more power over Othello/ doesn't use it wisely
• Desdemona (3.3) "His bed shall seem a school... with Cassio's suit"


  Desdemona is naive to Othello's jealousy/ she will create the image of being un loyal/ her goodness is manipulated
• Desdemona (3.4) "My noble Moor Is true of mind, and made of no such baseness As jealous creatures are"


  Desdemona uses racial stereotypes adding to his insecurities/ she believes she still has some ownership or power/ Emilia is more experienced in men's evil/ idealised love/ naivety
• Desdemona (4.3) "If I do die before thee, prithee shroud me In one of these same sheets"


  Desdemona gives into her murder/ building pathos/ symbol of her undying love/ sealed fate as tragic victim/ the sheets that represented their love now represent death
• Desdemona (4.3) "wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?"


  Desdemona's naivety contrasted with Emilia's experience/ Desdemona doesn't have to fight for power so doesn't realise how much power is important to women/ still idealises Othello
• Emilia (3.3) "I nothing but to please his fantasy"


  Loyal to Iago/ gives into mysogony at beginning of the play
• Emilia (3.4) "They are all but stomachs, and we all but food: They eat us hungerly, and when they are full they belch us"


  Emilia is more worldly/ only speaks in domestic realm/ women are at the mercy of men/ teaching Desdemona when a man is bored he will move on/ motif of appetite/ predatory
• Emilia (3.4) "It is a monster begot upon itself"


  Mirrors Iago's language/ monster motif it is Othello's jealousy that makes him monstrous / jealousy multiplies/ warning Desdemona from experience/ if Desdemona listens her fate isn't inevitable
• Emilia (4.3) "It is a great price for a small vice"


  Emilia recognises that women should take any power they can get/ Her marriage is not idealistic/ only speaks in the domestic realm
• Emilia (5.2) "may his pernicious soul Rot half a grain a day!"


  She is now more loyal to Desdemona/ wants him to feel pain for what he has done in hell
• Emilia (5.2) "I will not charm my tongue, I am bound to speak"


  Loyal to Desdemona/ won't use witchcraft/ speaking out in the public sphere/ suffers ultimate price/ foil of Desdemona
• Bianca (3.4) "You are jealous now"


  Bianca and Cassio's relationship is a foil of Othello and Desdemona's as they recognise their problems
• Brabantio (1.3) "she has deceived her father and may thee"


  Desdemona has the power to choose/ increases Othello's insecurities/ foreshadows his downfall
• Roderigo (5.2) "O damn'd Iago! O inhuman dog!"


  Roderigo's Anagnorisis/ truth about Iago and his lack of honesty/ realises his inhumanity
• Cassio (2.3) "I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial"


  Power of masculinity/ Iago drags down his reputation like he will do with Othello/ shows how important societies views on you are/ Cassio can admit his flaws so is not monstrous