Summary Othello Quotes on Misogyny sorted by Character
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Course
Othello
Institution
AQA
Book
Othello
Quotations on/connoting misogyny from the entire play, sorted by character who said them
All quotes from the play on misogyny for 7 different characters
“Zounds, sir, you’re robbed!”
“he tonight hath boarded a land carrack. If it prove lawful prize, he’s made for ever.”
“Ere I would say I would drown myself for the love of a guinea hen”
“supersubtle Venetian”
“Sir, would she give you so much of her lips As of her tongue she oft bestows on me, You’ll have
enough.”
“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.”
“You get up to play and go to bed to work”
“To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.”
“Her eye must be fed”
“her delicate tenderness will find itself abused”
“it is a most pregnant and unforced position”
“The wine she drinks is made of grapes.”
"she is sport for Jove"
"I'll warrant her full of game"
“I know our country disposition well; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks They dare not
show their husbands”
“A good wench!”
“it is a creature That dotes on Cassio; as ’tis the strumpet’s plague To beguile many and be
beguiled by one”
“and to see how he prizes the foolish woman your wife! she gave it him, and he hath given it his
whore.”
“You are a fool; go to”
“O notable strumpet!”
“This is the fruits of whoring”
“Go to, charm your tongue”
Othello
“I won his daughter”
Brabantio and othello both tell the duke they won’t have desdemona stay with her father before
desdemona herself has a say
“O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites!”
“Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her!”
“Devil! [striking her]”
“If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears, Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile”
“she’s a simple bawd”
“a subtle whore”
“O thou public commoner!”
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