| IAGO – “Honest, my lord?”OTHELLO – “Honest? Ay, honest”OTHELLO – “What dost thou think?”IAGO – “Think, my lord”ACT 3 SCENE 3 – TEMPTATION SCENE | Iago repeats what Othello is saying in order to produce the idea that he may be hiding something that he doesn’t want to reveal. |
| “O beware, my lord, of jealousy:It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.” Iago to Othello ACT 3 SCENE 3 – TEMPTATION SCENE | Iago introduces the idea that Othello may have something to be jealous about which plants a seed of doubt in his mind. |
| “Look to your wife, observe her well with Cassio;” Iago to Othello ACT 3 SCENE 3 – TEMPTATION SCENE | Iago finally gets to the point and tells Othello that Cassio and Desdemona may be sleeping together. |
| “And yet how nature erring from itself – ” Othello to Iago ACT 3 SCENE 3 – TEMPTATION SCENE | Othello himself admits that he and Desdemona are not a likely match and starts to doubt his wife himself. |
| “She did deceive her father, marrying you;” Iago to Othello ACT 3 SCENE 3 – TEMPTATION SCENE | Iago remind Othello that she lied to her father about their marrige and therefore may lie to him. He is clever to remind Othello of the speech Brabantio gave. |
| “In sleep I heard him say, “Sweet Desdemona,Let us be wary, let us hide our loves” ” Iago to OthelloACT 3 SCENE 3 – TEMPTATION SCENE | Iago makes up a dream Cassio had about Desdemona to try and convince him of the affair |
| “Within these three days let me hear thee say That Cassio’s not alive” Othello to Iago ACT 3 SCENE 3 – TEMPTATION SCENE | Othello orders Iago to kill Casio despite minutes earlier being convinced of Desdemona’s faithfulness |
| “In Venice they do let God see the pranksThey dare not show their husbands.” Iago to Othello ACT 3 SCENE 3 – TEMPTATION SCENE | Iago reminds Othello he is an outside and suggests that in Venice Women commonly hide their affairs from their husbands |
Othello Quotes ACT 3 SCENE 3 – TEMPTATION SCENE
August 25, 2019