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Othello Character Analysis through Quotes



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Othello Character Analysis through Quotes


Read the quotes and explain what they reveal about his character. Think about his background, strengths, weaknesses. What qualities allowed his exploitation?

1. OTHELLO

“Let him do his spite: My services, which I have done the signory,

Shall out-tongue his complaints…

I fetch my life and being

From men of royal siege, and my demerits

May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune

As this that I have reach’d” (1:2)
“The Moor is of a free and open nature

That thinks men honest that but seem to be so.” (Iago, 1:3)


“Most potent, grave and revered Signors…

Rude am I in my speech…” (1:3)


“For since these arms of mine had seven years pith

‘till now some nine moons wasted, they have used their dearest action in the tented field; and little of this great world can I speak

more than pertains to feats of broil and battle.”
“Your son in law is far more fair than black.”

“Send for the lady… and let her speak of me before her father… Let her have her voice.”


“The Moor/ is of a constant, loving, noble nature

And, I dare think he’ll prove to Desdemona / a most dear husband.”


“Are we turned Turks and to ourselves do that

Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?

For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl!”
“I shall not dine at home. I meet the captains at the citadel.” (3:3)
“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul / but I do love thee! And when I do not, Chaos is come again.”http://www.shakespearehelp.com/images/othello/othello.jpg
“Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell!

Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne

To tyrannous hate!” (1.3)

“Haply for I am black

and have not those soft parts of conversation

That chamberers have; or that I am declined

Into the vale of years – yet that’s not much –

She’s gone: I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her….

Yet tis the plague of great ones;

Prerogatived are they less than the base.

‘Tis destiny unshunnable, like death:

Even then this forked plague is fated to us

When we do quicken.”

“Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!

Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars…

Farewell! Othello’s occupation’s gone.” (3:3)

“I had been happy if the general camp,

Pioneers and all, had tasted her sweet body,

So had I nothing known” (3:3)
“Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore:

…Thou hadst better have been born a dog

Than answer my waked wrath”
“It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul:

Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!

…Yet I’ll not shed her blood,

Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow…

Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men” (5:2)
“.. I would not kill thy unprepared spirit

No- heaven forfend! I would not kill thy soul!” (5:2)


“There’s he that was Othello; here I am.”
“Tis happiness to die.”
“You must speak of one who loved not wisely, but too well;

Of one, not easily jealous but, being wrought,

Perplexed in the extreme…”
“In Aleppo once

Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk

beat a Venetian and traduced the state

I took by th’throat the circumcised dog

And smote him thus.”

  1. IAGO

“We cannot all be masters, nor all masters

Cannot be truly followed…

Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:

In following him, I follow but myself.

Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,

But seeming so for my peculiar end: … I am not what I am.” (1:1)

“Even now, now, very now, an old black ram


Is tupping your white ewe.” (1:2)

“Your daughter

And the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”
“Virtue! A fig!

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus....

Why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.” (1:3)

“I hate the Moor,

And it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets

H’as done my office. I know not if’t be true,

But I, for mere suspicion in that kind, Will do.... He holds me well; The better shall my purpose work on him.

Cassio’s a proper man...He hath a person and a smooth dispose

to be suspected... The Moor ... will be as tenderly led by th’nose

As asses are.” (1:3)


“With as little web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.”
“O, you are well tuned no; But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music, as honest as I am”

(2:1)
“Divinity of hell! When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows, As I do now.”


“O world, to be direct and honest is not safe. I’ll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence. … I should be wise, for honesty’s a fool…”
“This fellow’s of exceeding honesty, and knows all qualities, with a learned spirit / Of human dealings.” (3:3 Othello; about Iago)
“notorious villain”

“O Damned Iago, inhuman dog”


“viper” “pernicious caitiff (evil coward)

“hellish villain” (5:2)


3. EMILIA



QUOTE

EXPLANATION

  • “This was her first remembrance to the Moor … I’ll have the work ta’en out, and give’t Iago. / What he will do with it, heaven knows, not I: / I nothing, but to please his fantasy.




  • “Ït is a common thing to have a foolish wife”




  • “Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?




  • “Then let them use us well: else let them know the ills we do, their ills instruct us so.”




  • “[Men] are all but stomach and we [women] all but food; / they eat us hungerly, and when they are full, / they belch us.






  • “Thou has not half that power to do me harm / As I have to be hurt. O gull! O dolt! / As ignorant as dirt! Thou hast done a deed - / I care not for thy sword – I’ll make thee known / Though I lost twenty lives.”




  • “O villainy! I thought so then; I’ll kill myself for grief.”




  • Unwittingly helps to bring down Iago through stealing handkerchief

  • Shows she understands role of women in society, aware of the way men use women.




  • Cynical view of love



  • Believes women are unfaithful in response to men’s behaviour crude, coarse



  • sexually experienced

  • realistic and knowing



  • shows her love for Desdemona, hatred for Othello (racist language)



  • assertive – denounces Iago and stands up for what is right







  • feels guilty for her earlier ignorance and part she played in tragedy




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