Othello

• Iago: 'I know my price'
• Iago: 'Horribly stuffed with epithets of war'
• Iago: 'I follow him to serve my turn upon him'
• Iago: 'In following him I follow but myself'
• Iago: 'I am not what I am'
• Roderigo: 'thicklips'
• Iago: 'poison his delight...plague him with flies'
• Iago: 'an old black ram is tupping your white ewe'
• Iago: 'Barbary horse'
• Roderigo: 'knave of common hire.. gondolier'
• Iago: 'lascivious Moor'
• Roderigo: 'a gross revolt'
• Roderigo: 'an extravagant and wheeling stranger'
• Othello: 'Let him do his spite; My services..shall out-tongue his complaints'
• Othello: 'I love the gentle Desdemona'
• Othello: 'My parts, my title and my perfect soul'
• Othello: 'Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.'
• Brabantio: 'thou hast enchanted her... thou hast practised on her with foul charms'
• Brabantio: 'thing'
• Othello: 'Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.'
• Senator: 'Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor'
• Brabantio: 'flood gate.. engluts and swallows'
• "O treason of the blood..."

  Brabantio is racist towards Othello due to his relationship with Desdemona. (Context) Act 1 sc 1
• Brabantio: 'she is abused, stolen..and corrupted, by spells and medicines'
• "Is there not charms, by which the property of youth and maidhood may be abused?"

  Brabantio assumes that Othello has bewitched Desdemona. (Context) Act 1 sc 2
• "but he, as loving his own pride and purposes, evades them and with a bombast circumstance horribly stuffed with epithets of war, and in conclusion nonsuits my mediators..."


  Iago is angered by Othello's arrogant dismissal of his attempts to get a promotion (Hubris + Malcontent) Act 1 sc 1
• "I am not what I am..."


  Iago shows his duplicitous nature (Machiavel) Act 1 sc 1
• "Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe..."


  Iago provokes Brabantio by telling him about his daughter's sexual relations with Othello (Context + Machiavel) Act 1 sc 1
• "Let him do his spite; my services, which I have done the signiory, shall out-tongue his complaints..."


  Othello states that he shall not be punished for marrying Desdemona, as he has served the state well (Megalopsychia) Act 1 sc 2
• "I fetch my life and being from men of royal siege..."


  Othello states that he was born from foreign royalty (Megalopsychia) Act 1 Sc 2
• Othello: 'Rude am I in my speech'
• "you have been hotly called for..."


  Cassio talks about the senate's need of Othello's military experience in this time of crisis (Megalopsychia) Act 1 sc 2
• "keep your Bright swords, for the dew will rust them. Good Signior, you shall more command with years than with your weapons..."


  Othello shows his noble nature by diffusing the tension between him and Brabantio (Megalopsychia) Act 1 sc 2
• "I do beseech you, send for the lady to the sagittary, and let her speak before her father. If you do find me foul in her report the trust, the office I do hold of you not only take away, but let your sentence fall even upon my life..."


  Othello shows his bravery and love for Desdemona by allowing her to speak for him in his defence, and allowing the Duke and Brabantio to kill him if she says that she doesn't love him (Megalopsychia) Act 1 sc 3
• "she loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them..."


  Othello explains the reason that he and Desdemona love each other (Megalopsychia + AO5) Act 1 sc 3
• "I'm hitherto your daughter, but here's my husband..."


  Desdemona shows her virtue by being true to Othello and diffusing the tension with Brabantio (Megalpsychia + love) Act 1 sc 3
• "no, when light-winged toys of feathered cupid seel with wanton dullness my speculative and officed instrument, that my disports corrupt and taint my business, let housewives make a skillet of my helm..."


  Othello states that his military skills will not be compromised by Desdemona's presence at Cyprus, and it somewhat arrogant about them (Megalopsychia and Hubris) Act 1 sc 3
• Othello: 'dearest action in the tented field'
• "look to her, Moor if thou hast eyes to see: she has deceived her father, and may thee..."


  Brabantio warns Othello about Desdemona's unfaithfulness, perhaps beginning to provoke his jealousy (Tragic flaw and (kinda) Foreshadowing) Act 1 sc 3
• "The Moor is of a free and open nature that thinks men honest that but seem to be so and will as tenderly be led by th'nose as asses are..."


  Iago talks about Othello's Tragic flaw (Tragic Flaw) Act 2 sc 1