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AQA A LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE:OTHELLO QUOTES EXAM
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Iago: In following him I follow but myself - ANSWER-A1S1 - Iago
Exchange of pronouns - Deceptive subversion of duty and loyalty
Iago: Thus do I ever make my fool my purse - ANSWER-A1S3 - Iago
Acknowledges his intentional exploitation of Roderigo.
Cassio: Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation, I have
lost the immortal part of myself - and what remains is bestial. - ANSWER-A2S3 -
Cassio
Grief about the loss of his reputation.
Repetition + spiritual elevation - his identity is bound with his reputation.
Othello: Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whoree / Be sure of it, give me
the ocular proof - ANSWER-A3S3 - Othello
Othello's demand for actual evidence - initially has a strong faith in Desdemona
- this later subverted.
However - now looking to Iago for the truth about his wife, rather than
allowing her to speak for herself - contrasts w/ A1S3 - 'let her witness it'
Motif - sight.
,Iago: He hath a daily beauty in his life / That makes me ugly - ANSWER-A5S1 -
Iago
Jealousy of Cassio.
Des: A guiltless death I die.
Des: Nobody, I myself. - ANSWER-A5S2 - Desdemona
In death, both maintains her innocence and exonerates Othello - dutiful wife.
Iago: Demand me nothing. What you know, you know / From this time forth I
never will speak word. - ANSWER-A5S2 - Iago
Iago's defence - has simply fulfilled the expectations of the characters +
audience.
Emilia: They are not ever jealous for the cause, / Bur jealous for they're jealous
- ANSWER-A3S2 - Emilia.
Male jealousy - irrational and unjustified.
Impossible situation for women.
Iago: It is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets / He's done my office. I know
not if't be true. - ANSWER-A1S3 - Iago
Sexual jealousy as a motive.
Iago: O, beware my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-eyed monster which doth
mock / The meat it feeds on. - ANSWER-A3S3 - Iago
Metaphor - warning Othello of jealousy - motif of consumption
Jealous personified - powerful, barbaric & bestial
,Iago: I fear Cassio with my night-cap too - ANSWER-A2S1 - Iago
Sexual jealousy - Cassio
Othello: Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought / Perplexed in the
extreme - ANSWER-A5S2 - Othello
Final speech - doesn't take full responsibility - a victim of violent deceit
Iago: Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs. -
ANSWER-A1S1 - Iago
Explicit and vulgar animalistic sexual imagery
Iago speaks more sexually than O throughout the play - manipulates audience
to believe they're having a grotesque intimate relationship, but this is never
made clear
'Your' - patriarchal ownership
Brabantio: A maiden never bold / Of spirit so still and quiet. - ANSWER-A1S3 -
Brabantio
His description of Desdemona contradicts her transgressive marriage to
Othello.
His portrayal of her as quiet + passive contrasts with how O portrays her: as
active and joint leader in their romance
Brabantio: She has deceived her father, and may thee - ANSWER-A1S3 -
Brabantio
Parting warning - reflects patriarchal expectation that a woman is a possession
owned by her father then husband - a transaction.
Foreshadowing - anticipates Othello's conviction in Desdemona's deception.
Iago echoes this line in Act 3
, Iago: You rise to play, and go to bed to work. - ANSWER-A2S1 - Iago
Misogyny - belittles women - frivolous + promiscuous.
Cassio: And think it no addition, nor my wish, To have him see me womaned -
ANSWER-A3S4 - Cassio
Ashamed of Bianca - contrast between honourable appearance + reality.
Contrasts with his elevation of Desdemona
Emilia: "They are all but stomachs, and we all but food: / They eat us hungerly,
and when they are full / They belch us - ANSWER-A3S4 - Emilia
Applies metaphor sexual appetite to men - greedy + callous consumers of
women.
Emilia: I nothing, but to please his fantasy - ANSWER-A3S3 - Emilia
Dutiful wife - negates herself as insignificant in comparison to her husband's
desires.
Othello: I took you for that cunning whoree of Venice / That married with
Othello - ANSWER-A4S2 - Othello
Has adopted misogynistic generalisations - internalising Iago's attitudes
3rd person - losing sense of self - identity tied up with wife's fidelity
Emilia: I do think it is their husbands' faults / If wives do fall - ANSWER-A4S3 -
Emilia
Proto-feminism.
Blaming husbands' behaviour for wives' infidelity
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