Othello
ACT 1
Military World Michael Cassio
(1)“Horribly stuffed with epithets of (1)“a great arithmetician … a
war” Florentine”
(3)“some nine moons wasted, they “a fellow almost damned in a fair
have used Their dearest action in the wife”
tented field” “never set a squadron in a field”
“little of this great world can I speak “bookish theoric”
more than pertains to feats of broil “mere prattle without practice is all
and battle… I won his daughter.” his solidership”
Iago Othello
(1)“there’s no remedy, tis the curse of (2)“Let him do his spite: My services
service, Preferment goes by letter and which I have done the signory, Shall
affection and not by old gradation, out-tongue his complaints.”
where each second Stood heir to the “I would not … Put into
first.” circumscription and confine for the
“I follow him to serve my turn upon sea’s worth.”
him.” “My parts, my title and my perfect
“In following him, I follow but myself. soul Shall manifest me rightly.”
Heaven is my judge.” “Keep up your bright swords, for the
“The native act and figure of my heart dew will rust them.”
in compliment extern … I will wear my “thou hast enchanted her … If she in
heart upon my sleeve For daws to chains of magic … a maid so tender,
peck at: I am not what I am.” fair, and happy … Run from her
(2)“no contrived murder: I lack guardage to the sooty bosom Of such
iniquity sometimes to do me service.” a thing as thou; to fear, not to
“By Janus” delight.”
(3) “Virtue? A fig.” (3)“valiant Moor”
“But we have reason to cool our “Valiant Othello”
raging motions, our carnal strings, our “Rude am I in my speech and little
unbitted lusts … to be a sect or blessed with the soft phrase of peace”
scion.” “some nine moons wasted, they have
“Come, be a man. From thyself? used Their dearest action in the
drown cats and blind puppies” tented field”
“Put money in thy purse” “little of this great world can I speak
“She must change for youth; when more than pertains to feats of broil
she is sated with his body, she will and battle… I won his daughter.”
find the error of her choice.” “To fall in love with what she feared to
“I hate the Moor.” “cuckold him” look on … Against all rules of nature.”
“make my fool my purse” “Not only take away, but let your
“twixt my sheets / He’s done my sentence Even fall upon my life.”
office.” “sold to slavery”
“in double knavery” “antres vast and deserts idle”
“How? How? Let’s see” “with a greedy ear Devour up my
“The Moor is of a free and open discourse”
nature, / That thinks men honest that “all my pilgrimage dilate”
but seem to be so, / And will as “She loved me for the dangers I had
tenderly be led by th’nose as asses passed, And I loved her that she did
,are.” pity them.”
“Hell and night Must bring this “If virtue no delighted beauty lack,
monstrous birth to the world’s light.” Your son-in-law is far more fair than
black.”
“She must change for youth; when
she is sated with his body, she will
find the error of her choice.”
“The Moor is of a free and open
nature, / That thinks men honest that
but seem to be so, / And will as
tenderly be led by th’nose as asses
are.”
Patriarchal View/ Control of Venice / Power dynamics
Women (1)“my spirit and my place have them
(1)“Your heart is burst, you have lost in them power to make this bitter to
half your soul.” thee.”
“Even now, now, very now, an old (3) “If virtue no delighted beauty lack,
black ram is tupping your white ewe.” Your son-in-law is far more fair than
“Tying her duty, beauty, and black.”
fortunes..” “Hell and night Must bring this
“trust not your daughters’ minds By monstrous birth to the world’s light.”
what you see them act.”
(2)“I would not … Put into
circumscription and confine for the
sea’s worth.”
“thou hast enchanted her … If she in
chains of magic … a maid so tender,
fair, and happy … Run from her
guardage to the sooty bosom Of such
a thing as thou; to fear, not to
delight.”
(3)“little of this great world can I
speak more than pertains to feats of
broil and battle… I won his daughter.”
“To fall in love with what she feared to
look on … Against all rules of nature.”
“She must change for youth; when
she is sated with his body, she will
find the error of her choice.”
Desdemona Race
(1)“Tying her duty, beauty, and (1)“the thick-lips”
fortunes..” “Even now, now, very now, an old
(2)“I would not … Put into black ram is tupping your white ewe.”
circumscription and confine for the “the devil will make a grandsire of
sea’s worth.” you”
“thou hast enchanted her … If she in “your daughter covered with a
chains of magic … a maid so tender, Barbary horse”
fair, and happy … Run from her “making the beast with two backs”
guardage to the sooty bosom Of such “the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor”
a thing as thou; to fear, not to (2) “thou hast enchanted her … If she
, delight.” in chains of magic … a maid so
(3)“little of this great world can I tender, fair, and happy … Run from
speak more than pertains to feats of her guardage to the sooty bosom Of
broil and battle… I won his daughter.” such a thing as thou; to fear, not to
“To fall in love with what she feared to delight.”
look on … Against all rules of nature.” (3)“valiant Moor”
“with a greedy ear Devour up my “Valiant Othello”
discourse” “Rude am I in my speech and little
“she wished that heaven had made blessed with the soft phrase of peace”
her such a man.” “To fall in love with what she feared to
“She loved me for the dangers I had look on … Against all rules of nature.”
passed, And I loved her that she did “sold to slavery”
pity them.” “If virtue no delighted beauty lack,
“I do perceive here a divided duty” Your son-in-law is far more fair than
“I saw Othello’s visage in his mind .. black.”
my soul and fortunes consecrate”
“if i be left behind a moth of peace …
Let me go with him.”
“She must change for youth; when
she is sated with his body, she will
find the error of her choice.”
Witchcraft Seed of Doubt (Jealousy)
(2)“thou hast enchanted her … If she (3)“Look to her, Moor, if thou hast
in chains of magic … a maid so eyes to see, She has deceived her
tender, fair, and happy … Run from father, and may thee.”
her guardage to the sooty bosom Of “Hell and night Must bring this
such a thing as thou; to fear, not to monstrous birth to the world’s light.”
delight.”
(3)“To fall in love with what she
feared to look on … Against all rules
of nature.”
ACT 2
Desdemona Othello
(1)“the divine Desdemona” (1)“My dear Othello”
“our great captain’s captain.” “If I were now to die, ‘Twere now be
“the riches of this ship … let her have most happy; for I fear My soul hath
your knees.” content so absolute That not another
“Alas, she has no speech” - “O heavy like to this Succeeds in unknown fate”
ignorance; thou praisest the worst “O my sweet, I prattle out of fashion,
best.” – “fie upon thee, slanderer!” and I dote in mine own comfort”
“my fair warrior” “Her eye must be fed; and what
“The heavens forbid But that our delight shall she have to look on the
loves and comforts should increase, devil?”
Even as our days do grow.” “When the blood is made dull with the
“Her eye must be fed; and what act of sport, there should be again to
delight shall she have to look on the inflame it and give satiety a fresh
devil?” appetite, loveliness in favour,
“When the blood is made dull with the sympathy, in years, manners and
act of sport, there should be again to beauties: all which the Moor is
