| masculine honour, animal imagery | A horned man’s a monster and a beast |
| violence and masculine honour | I will chop her to messes! Cuckold me! |
| grotesque depiction of cuckoldery- O would rather be a | toad/ And live upon the vapor of a dungeon |
| what word does Iago repeat in temptation scene, sexual connotation to curiosity | satisfaction |
| jealousy has its own momentum and force | a monster/ Begot on itself, born on itself |
| whereas 3.3. ‘jealousy’ repetition, in 3.4 what has it moved to (x4), showing Iago’s power to manipulate O? | angry |
| syntax of sentence shows conflict within othello/turmoil- (also alliteration) | who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves |
| feeling horns on the forehead, WHEN | a pain upon my forehead here |
| jealousy’s link with honour | green eyed monster which doth mock/ the meat it feeds upon |
| women passive, men consumers, subject to violence and will | they are all but stomach, and we all but food |
| destruction of women by men | eat us hungerly, and when they are full/ they belch us |
| cassio disrespectful to women | Go to, woman, throw your vile guesses in the devil’s teeth |
| cassio disrespectful to women | sweet Desdemona |
| Desdemona’s retaliation to Iago’s misogyny ‘wild cats, devils’ | o most lame and impotent conclusion |
| emilia’s appeal to the audience, reminiscent of hath not a jew eyes | let husbands know/ their wives have sense like them/ they see and smell/ and have their palates both for sweet and sour |
| interrogation of D by o | give me your hand. this hand is moist, my lady |
| i goading o | with her, on her, what you will |
| o’s fury, inherent misogyny showing | nose, lips and ears! |
| e taking motherly role for D, child at bedtime | prithee, unpin me |
| violence of o | i’ll tear her all to pieces… chop her to messes |
| setting in dark of which scene established theme of deception | 1.1 |
| establishing theme of nature in relationships in 1.1 | D’s gross revolt |
| immediacy/danger of ‘old black ram/ is tupping your white ewe’ | even now, now, very now |
| ending 1.2 ominously on couplet about nature/the order of things | for if such actions have passage be/ bondslaves and pagans shall our pagans be |
| negative abstract nouns foreshadow the tragedy ahead | perdition catch my soul/ but I do love thee! And when I love thee not,/ Chaos is come again |
| warning couplet of Brabantio to O, foreshadowing the tragedy EYES AND SEEING | Look to her Moor, if thou hast eyes to see/ She has deceived her father, and may thee. |
| O’s reply to B’s warning, sounds ominous and seems a harmless statement but it prefigures the tragedy | my life upon her faith |
| venetian women- iago | their best conscience/ Is not to leave’t undone, but keep’t unknown |
| hell anger in 3.3 | death and damnation! O! |
| violent anger 3.3. | O, blood, blood, blood! |
| poison and agency of Iago | I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear |
| tainted love, near death HANDKERCHIEF | Thy bed, lust stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted |
| McEvoy | othello’s jealousy is the product of a social system whereby women are dominated and possessed by men |
| justice in restoring | i can thy former light restore |
| poetic justice of marriage bed death | the justice of it pleases |
| doubting leading to tortured heart | with a little art upon the blood burn like the mines of sulphur |
| anagnorisis | wash me down in steep gulfs of liquid fire |
| conflicted view of desdemona | fair devil |
| egoism and cuckoldery | farewell, Othello’s occupation’s gone |
| mockery of cuckoldery | The fixèd figure for the time of scorn/ To point his slow and moving finger at! |
| coleridge | superhuman art of Iago |
| TS Eliot- ensnared by a demi devil | terrible exposure of human weakness |
| ‘had it pleas’d heaven’ showed how othellos love is the | pure affection of a soul which unites itself to another |
| honigmann at the end of 3.3. | othello is almost the ventriloquist’s dummy |
| dr pamela mason | the main aspect of the tragedy for the women is the way their marital and emotional bonding preempts or takes precedence over female common cause |
| iago planting idea of seeming and appearing in jealousy | Look to your wife, observe her with cassio |
| before death scene, eyes | strumpet, I come… thine eyes are blotted |
| eyes revealing sexuality – iago act 2 | her eye must be fed, and what delight shall/ she have to look upon the devil |
| 3.4 eyes | let me see your eyes. |
| 4.3 foreshadowing eyes and emotions | mine eyes do itch. doth that bode weeping? |
| iago agency desdemona | out of her goodness make the net/ That shall enmesh them all |
| iago white desdemona black | will turn her virtue into pitch |
| desdemona after being struck | i have not deserved this |
| what does othello think d is by the end | cunning wh*re of Venice |
| vague desdemona | the love I bear for Cassio |
| desdemona naive | what, is he angry? |
| ohtello incensed by d’s naivety | she’s obedient, as you say, obedient/ Very obedient —Proceed you in your tears |
| willow song | poor soul… murmured her moans |
| o’s devotion | soul is so enfetter’d to her love |
| o’s waekness in love | god’ to his ‘weak function’ |
| fountains become… | cistern for foul toads to knot and gender in |
| iago spider | with as little a web as this will I / ensnare as great a fly as Cassio |
| diabolic oxymoron | divinity of hell |
| iago’s front | when devils will the blackest sins put on/ they do suggest at first with heavenly shows |
| o reduced to his antithesis, incoherent | my wife! My wife! What wife! I have no wife |
| lodovico on othello | O Othello, that wast once so good |
| lod tells I to contemplate the | tragic loading |
| flourishing in love | I did thrive in this lady’s love, and she in mine |
| hungry for other | with a greedy ear/ devour up my discourse |
| disharmony 3 4 | My advocation is not now in tune |
| harmonyyy | my heart’s subdued to the very quality of my lord |
| torvald | No man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves |
| calming force of d | winds blow till they have waken’d death |
| loves and comforts increase as | days do grow |
| perversion of desdemonas will | will most rank |
| unnatural | foul disproportion |
| d as life giving source | fountain from the which my current runs, |
| willowwww | the fresh streams ran by her, and murmur’d her moans |
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September 7, 2019