Othello
Misogyny Counter-misogyny
Act One Scene One
Begins in media res
“a great arithmetician” - iago about cassio
“(A fellow almost damned in a fair wife)”- iago about cassio
“Whether I in any just term am affined To love the Moor.” iago to roderigo
“I follow him to serve my turn upon him” iago to roderigo about othello
“In following him, I follow but myself. Heaven is my judge, not I for love and
duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end.” iago to roderigo about othello
“’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck
at. I am not what I am” iago to roderigo
“Thick-lips" roderigo to iago about othello
“Poison his delight,” iago to roderigo about brabantio
“Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags!” Brabantio describes
Desdemona in among a list of possessions, plus names the house first as
though she is only of second most importance. Views her marriage as more of
a transaction or beneficiary than an act of love and happiness
“Zounds, sir, you’re robbed!” iago to brabantio about Desdemona speaks of
Desdemona as property, commodification of women
“an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe.” iago to brabantio
“the devil will make a grandsire of you.” iago to brabantio
“you’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse. You’ll have your
nephews neigh to you.” iago to brabantio
“Thou art a villain!” brabantio to iago
“lascivious Moor” roderigo to brabantio
“Is there not charms By which the property of youth and maidhood May be
abused?” brabantio to roderigo
Act One Scene Two
“I love the gentle Desdemona” othello to iago
“By Janus” iago
“he tonight hath boarded a land carrack. If it prove lawful prize, he’s made for
ever.” iago to cassio
“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them” othello to iago and
brabantio
“where hast thou stowed my daughter?” brabantio to othello
“Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom Of such a thing as thou”
brabantio to othello about desdemona
, “thou hast practiced on her with foul charms,” brabantio to othello about
desdemona
Act One Scene Three
“She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted By spells and medicines
bought of mountebanks. For nature so prepost'rously to err, Being not
deficient, blind, or lame of sense, Sans witchcraft could not.” brabantio to the
duke
“I won his daughter” othello to the duke
“A maiden never bold, Of spirit so still and quiet” brabantio to the duke
Othello asks for desdemona to testify for herself (autonomy)
“’twas strange, ’twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, ’twas wondrous pitiful.”
Othello to the duke
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity
them.” Othello to the duke
Brabantio and the duke converse in rhyming couplets
Brabantio and othello both tell the duke they won’t have desdemona stay
with her father before desdemona herself has a say
“My downright violence and storm of fortunes May trumpet to the world. My
heart’s subdued” desdemona to the duke
“I saw Othello’s visage in his mind” desdemona to the duke
“A man he is of honesty and trust” othello to the duke about iago
“If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.”
the duke to brabantio about othello
“Honest Iago” othello to iago
“then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.” roderigo to
iago
“Ere I would say I would drown myself for the love of a guinea hen, I would
change my humanity with a baboon.” iago to roderigo about desdemona and
othello a guinea hen is a derogatory term for a woman and means ‘prostitute’.
Iago speaks down to women as though they are all worthless prostitutes.
Baboon is a racial term against othello, one of many animals he is compared
to
“Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.” iago to
roderigo- FEMINIST POWERMOVE. Allegory for control, garden used in
literature at this time, conceit used by shakespeare. Characters in this play
seem to be the product of certain inevitable, natural forces, which, if left
unchecked, will grow wild. Iago understands these natural forces particularly
well: he is, according to his own metaphor, a good “gardener,” both of himself
and of others.
, “It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.” iago to roderigo
modern significance, puts responsibility on men to control their desires, men
must permit themselves to act on their lust, FEMINIST ICON <3
“Come, be a man.” modern significance, toxic masculinity, man up and don’t
show emotion, suicide is weak
Put money in thy purse.
“If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way than drowning.”
iago to roderigo if you are going to send yourself to hell, at least do it in a
manly way
“an erring barbarian and supersubtle Venetian” iago to roderigo
“it is thought abroad that ’twixt my sheets He’s done my office.” iago to self
“for mere suspicion in that kind, Will do as if for surety.” iago to self bit sus,
must be more reason to such drastic measures. Wants excuse to split them
up; iago crushing on othello? Why would iago seek revenge on othello by
turning him against desdemona and making him widowed? Shakespeare was
bi soooooooo
Act Two Scene One
“brave Othello” montano to gentlemen
“he hath achieved a maid” cassio to montano about othello
“our great captain’s captain” cassio to montano
“Great Jove” cassio to montano
“good Iago” cassio to iago
“’tis my breeding That gives me this bold show of courtesy.” cassio to iago
about emilia
“Sir, would she give you so much of her lips As of her tongue she oft bestows
on me, You’ll have enough.” iago to cassio about emilia
“You are pictures out a-doors, bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens,
Saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewifery, and
housewives’ in your beds.” iago to emilia about women
“O, fie upon thee, slanderer!” desdemona to iago, standing up for emilia
“You get up to play and go to bed to work” iago to desdemona about women
“my invention Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize” iago to
desdemona, ironic since he is super cunning and inventive. Paradoxical to his
following elaborate opinions, exacerbated being said in rhyming couplets
“If she be black, and thereto have a wit, She’ll find a white that shall her
blackness fit.” iago to desdemona
