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Othello

Racial insults at Othello

1.1.p.201 Roderigo: 'thick-lips'

1.1.p203 Iago: 'Even now, now, very now, an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe.'
1.1.p204 Iago: 'you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse
1.1.p205 Roderigo: 'the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor'
1.1.p207 Brabantio: 'O treason of the blood!'
1.2.p213 Brabantio: 'O thou foul thief, where hast though stowed my daughter?
1.2.p213 Brabantio: 'Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom / Of such a thing as thou - to fear, not to
delight?'
1.3.p221 Brabantio: 'and she - in spite of nature, / Of years, of country, credit, everything- / To fall in love
with what she feared to look on?'
2.1.p255 Iago: 'Her eye must be fed. And what delight shall she have to look upon the devil?'


Othello starting to believe in the racial prejudices

3.3.p296 Othello: 'And yet how nature, erring from itself-'
3.3.p298 Othello: 'Haply, for I am black / And have not those soft parts of conversation / That chamberers
have'
3.3.p305 Othello: 'Her name, that was as fresh / As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black / As mine
own face.'
3.3.p310 Othello: 'Arise, black Vengeance from thy hollow hell''
5.2.p391 Othello: 'O cursed, cursed, slave! / Whip me, ye devils! / From the possession of this heavenly
sight'


Reputation

1.2.p209 Othello: 'My services which I have done the Signory / Shall out-tongue his complaints.'
1.2.p210 Othello: 'My parts, my title, and my perfect soul / Shall manifest me rightly.'
4.1.p340 Ludovico: 'Is this the noble Moor, whom our full Senate / Call all in all sufficient?' ... 'I am sorry
that I am deceived in him.'
5.2.p393 Ludovico: 'O thou, Othello, that was once so good, / Fallen in the practice of a damned slave.'
5.2.p395 Othello: 'When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, / Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, /
Nor set down aught in malice.'

, Jealousy:

3.3p292 Iago: 'O beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat
it feeds on.'
3.3.p302 Iago: 'Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of holy writ.'
3.4.p322 Emilia: 'But jealous souls will not be answered so; / They are not ever jealous for the cause, / But
jealous for they're jealous. It is a monster / Begot upon itself, born on itself.'
5.1.p375 Desdemona: 'And yet I fear you, for you're fatal then / When your eyes roll so.' [Robert Burton's
Anatomy of Melancholy notes 'eye rolling' as a symptom of jealousy]


Othello and Desdemona’s relationship

1.3.p221 Othello: 'I will around, unvarnished tale deliver / Of my whole course of love: what drugs, what
charms, / What conjuration, and what mighty magic- / For such proceeding I am charged
withal- / I won his daughter.'

1.3.p225 Othello: 'She loved me for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them.'
2.1.p252 Othello: 'My fair warrior!'
Desdemona: 'My dear Othello!'
2.3.p260 Othello: 'Come, my dear love, / The purchase made, the fruits are to ensure: / That profit's yet
to come 'tween me and you.'
3.3.p287 Othello: 'Excellent wretch, perdition catch my soul / But I do love thee! And when I love thee
not, / Chaos is come again.'
3.3.p294 Othello: 'For she had eyes and chose me. No, Iago, / I'll see before I doubt.'
3.4.p314 Othello: 'Give me your hand. This hand is moist, my lady.'
'This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart: / Hot, hot and moist!'
3.3.p112 Othello: 'Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her, damn her!'
4.1.p335 Othello: 'A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman!'
Iago: 'Nay, you must forget that.'
Othello: 'Ay, let her rot and perish and be damned tonight, for she shall not live!
4.1.p346 Othello: 'thou black weed', 'whore', 'thou public commoner', 'impudent strumpet!', 'cunning
whore of Venice'
5.2.p372 Othello: 'Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.' ... 'Put out the light, and then put out
the light' ... 'when I have plucked thy rose'
5.2.p375 Desdemona: 'That death's unnatural that kills for loving.'
5.2.p396 Othello: 'Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away.'

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