Othello

• “Motiveless malignity’ - Coleridge
• ‘He enjoys a godlike sense of power‘ - honigmann
• ‘Iago does what he does for enjoyment‘ - A.C. Bradley
• ‘The very voice of jealousy itself‘- Godfrey
• ‘Iago is recognisably kin to Miltons Satan’ - Staebler
• ‘Iago is motivated by more than a mere desire for revenge’ - Kermode
• ‘From the first scene to the last scene [he is] hated and despised‘ - Dr Johnson
• ‘Iago has all the psychological traits of a psychopath,’ - West
• ‘I am not what i am’ Iago
• ‘I am worth no worse a place’ Iago
• ‘An old black ram is tupping your white ewe’ Iago
• ‘I hate the moor’ Iago
• ‘I follow him to serve my turn upon him’ Iago
• ’With as little a web as this will i ensnare as great as a fly as Cassi’ Iago
• ‘Oh, you are well tuned now, but I’ll set down the pegs that make their music, as honest as i am’ Iago
• ‘Now, i do love her too, not out of absolute lust…But partly led to diet my revenge for that i do suspect the lusty moor halth leaped into my seat,’ Iago
• ’For i fear Cassio with my night-cap too,’ Iago
• Iago represents deceit and ambition in the mortality play.
• The commandments that Iago does not follow are lying and coveting.
• ‘Women and Blacks exist as the other‘ Loomba
• ‘Desdemona becomes a stereotype of female passivity‘ Jardine
• ‘Desdemona dies claiming black is white’ Cox
• ‘She is the ’perfect wife’’ Camden
• ‘Accepts that she must be obediant’ French
• ‘Torched withot a cause’ A.C Bradley commentation on Desdemona
• ‘She remains submissive until the end’ French
• ‘Her innocence makes her suffering more pain for the audience,’ A.C Bradley
• ‘I am a child to chiding‘ Desdemona
• ‘I do percieve here a divided duty,’ Desdemona
• ‘I saw Othello’s visage in his mind’ Desdemona
• ‘Beshrew me if i would do such a wrong. For the whole world’ Desdemona
• ‘For thy solicitor shall rather die than give thy cause away’ Desdemona
• ‘ think the sun where he was born drew all such humours from him’ Desdemona about Othello
• ‘Am i the movitve of these tears, my lord?’ Desdemona
• Desdemona knows that adultery is one of the main commandments
• The penality for women commiting adultery was mre severe for women than for men.
• In the mortality play, Desdemona is a figure of truth and fidelity.
• Act I Scene I. Iago says this to Roderigo when he is telling Roderigo about how he does not really love Othello, he just had to pretend that he does. Shows that Iago is not truthworthy

  "For when my outward action doth demonstrate /The native act and figure of my heart / In complement extern, 'tis not long after/ But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve/ For daws to peck at: I am not what I am."
• Act III. Scene III. Iago says this to Othello when he is planting the idea of Desdemona's affair with Cassio in Othello's head. Iago is "trying to convince him to slow down on his judgements of the two until he has concrete proof." Reverse Psychology.

  "Patience, I say, your mind perhaps may change."
• Act V Scene II. Othello says this to himself when he is in Desdemona's room as she in sleeping and he is thinking about killing her. He is saying that is it for justice, and not revenge, that he has to kill her.

  "It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul!/ Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars,/ It is the cause."