| “Her father loved me” Act 1 scene 3 (Arrogance) | Othello isn’t shy of being popular. Confident. |
| “I won his daughter’ Act 1 scene 3 (Arrogance) | ‘Won’ makes it seem inevitable as a general Othello doesn’t lose battles. |
| “She loved me for the dangers I had passed” Act 1 scene 3 (Arrogance) | A lot of pronoun i and me show his arrogance. |
| “My parts, my titles and my perfect soul” Act 1 scene 2 (Arrogance) | Personal pronouns, parts could have sexual reference or his possessions etc, titles is his reputation and soul are the things that are important to him. |
| “Yet she must die else she’ll betray more men” Act 5 scene 2(Pride) | Injured pride she must die for damaging his pride. |
| “Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!”(Pride) | In this context, is a word synonymous with pride. Pride can be seen as a fatal flaw with many in Othello. |
| “To please the palate of my appetite” Act 1 Scene 3 (Lust) | Othello is sexually hungry for Desdemona |
| “The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue: that profit’s yet to come ‘tween me and you” Act 2 Scene 2 (Lust) | Purchase/transaction-Desdemona an object. Male control-patriarchal society. Fruits=sweet and potential garden of eden foreshadowing the couples demise. Fruit also show that something will grow and bloom. |
| “Come away to bed…Come Desdemona” (Lust) | Repetition of ‘come’ emphasises lust for each other. |
| “Oh misery!” Act 3 scene 3 p8 (Jealousy) | Emphasises Othello’s jealousy and emotional pain. Emphatic ‘oh’ used throughout Othello, indicates broken speech, thus mind, thus broken society- natural order broken common feature. |
| “O beware, my lord, of jealousy: It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meet it feeds on” Act 3 scene 3 p8 (Jealousy) | Envy growing in Othello. Othello’s metaphoric and literal view (green eyes) have tarnished how he see’s Desdemona. Very important quote – Iago manipulating Othello. |
| “Lie with her? Lie on her? ‘We say lie on her’ when they belie her” Act 4 Scene 1 p3 (Jealousy) | Repetition of lie highlights the two sets of lies she’s supposedly committed. lying to Othello and physically lying in bed with Cassio. Belie suggests falseness is a contradiction to what Othello believed her to be- he’s extremely disappointed. |
| “This is a subtle w##re, A closet, lock and key, of villainous secrets: And yet she’ll kneel and pray, I have seen her do it” (Jealousy) | Othello now using slanderous terms to describe her contrasting to what he used to call her pure etc. |
| ‘I’d rather be a toad than to only have a part of someone I love, sharing the rest of her with others” Act 3 scene 3 (Jealousy) | Animal imagery, wont share Desdemona. Links to how Brabantio felt. |
| “Let nobody scorn him: His scorn I approve” Act 4 Scene 3 p3 | Desdemona- Loyal to him when he doesn’t deserve it |
| “Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe” Act 1 Scene 1 p4 (Loyalty) | Animal imagery used by Iago to provoke Brabantio past his limits. Othello described as a horse and old having sex with his pure daughter. Disloyalty from Othello. |
| If heaven would make me such another world of one entire and perfect chrysolite, I’d not have sold her for it” | Near the end of play. Othello realising the value and love that was real for Desdemona which he has ruined. |
| 410[Falls on the bed, and dies] (Loyalty) | Othello shows loyalty as he kills himself next to her. Willingness to end his life as hers is over. parallel to Romeo and Juliet. |
| An honourable murderer, if you will, For naught I did in hate but all in honour” Act 5 scene 2 line 291 (Loyalty) | He has a strange loyalty in his mind, perhaps he is trying to save his pride or even Desdemona from stopping her from further scandals if thats what she’s done. |
| “O,o,O!” Act 5 Scene 2(Insanity) | Emphatic ‘oh’ used throughout Othello, indicates broken speech, thus mind, thus broken society- natural order broken common feature. |
| “My wife! My wife! What Wife?” Act 5 Scene 2 (Insanity) | Repetition of personal pronoun My. Repetition Wife creates alliteration of ‘w’ + exclamation creates a tone of confusion after his seizures etc. |
| “Devil! [Strikes her]” Act 4 Scene 2 | Shocking to audience. Shows he is losing control of himself. He’s lost his gentlemen traits and his goodness. Out of character. |
| “Roast me in sulphur! Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!” Act 5 scene 2 line 275 (Insanity) | Seeing visions of hell |
| ”For she had eyes and chose me” Act 3 scene 3 p9 (Romance) | Their love bloomed in a natural way and it was a joint decision. |
| “My life upon her faith” Act 1 scene 3 p12 (Romance) | Othello seeming very sure of his love for her. Also foreshadows that his life and her faithfulness are linked. His life ends because he is confused of her loyalty etc. |
| “O my fair warrior!” “My dear Othello” (Romance) | Exaggeration of their love overly romantic language. |
Othello quotes LOVE-Romance, Arrogance, Lust, Jealousy, Insanity,
September 4, 2019