Love and Hate
‘Ay, let her rot, and perish and be damned
tonight, for she shall not live. No, my heart is turned’ ( Act 4 Scene 1, Othello)
‘ If after every tempest came such calms,/ May the winds blow till they have wakened death’ (Act 2
Scene 1, Othello)
‘O, my fair warrior’….’they kiss’ ( Act 2 scene 1, Othello)
‘ I re-tell thee again and again, I hate the moor’ ( Act 1 Scene 3, Iago)
‘ with a little web as this will I ensnare a great a fly as Cassio’ ( Act 2 Scene 1, Iago)
‘The Moor already changes with my poison… with a little act upon the blood, burn like the mines of
sulphur’ ( Act 3 scene 3, Iago)
‘I’ll tear her to pieces’ ( Act 3 Scene 3, Othello)
Iago’s Attitude to love
‘ Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners’ ( Act 1 scene 3, Iago)
‘It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will’ ( Act 1 Scene3, Iago)
‘ you are pictures out of doors, bells in your parlours, wild-cats in your kitchens, saints in your
injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewifery and housewives in your beds’ ( Act 2
scene 1, Iago)
‘mark me with what violence she first loved the moor, but for bragging and telling her fantastical
lies’ ( Act 2 Scene 1, Iago)
‘well, happiness to their sheets!’ ( Act 2 Scene 3, Iago)
‘you are eaten up by passion’ ( Act 3 scene 3, Iago)
‘ kiss me hard, as if he plucked kisses up by the roots, that grew upon my lips’ ( Act 3 Scene 3, Iago)
‘ she gave it to him, and he hath giv’n it his whore’ ( Act 4 Scene 1, Iago)
Individual attitudes to love
Othello:
‘My life upon her faith’ ( Act 1 Scene 3, Othello)
‘ I have a pain upon my forehead’ ( Act 3 Scene 3, Othello)
‘ Prove my love a whore’ ( Act 3 scene 3, Othello)
‘ Give me your hand. The hand is moist, my lady…. Hot, hot and moist’ ( Act 3 Scene 3, Othello)