Parts of a tragic hero | GreatGood manHappyTragic flawAccepts everything is his faultDies |
Iago’s plan | Part 1: Convince Roderigo that Cassio and Desdemona are secretly in lovePart 2: Have Roderigo anger CassioPart 3: Get Cassio drunkPart 4: Iago will tell Othello about Cassio and Desdemona’s affair |
“I am not what I am” | IAGOShowing that he is two-faced |
Brabantio | Desdemona’s father |
“It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place, To be produced- as if I stay I shall- Against the Moor” | IAGOHe is against the Moor |
Father, from hence trust not your daughter’s minds By what you see them act” | BRABANTIODesdemona is acting like she is innocent but in the inside she is not |
“Provoke him, that he may, for even out of that will I case of Cyprus to mutiny, whose qualification shall come into no true taste again but by the displanting of Cassio” | IAGO |
“… yet that I put the Moor at least into a jealousy so strong that judgement cannot cure” | IAGO |
“Knavery’s plain face is never seem till used” | IAGO |
“She’s a most exquisite lady” | CASSIO |
“If I can fasten but one cup upon him With that which he hath drunk tonight already He’ll be as full of quarrel and offense as my young mistress’ dog” | IAGO |
“Our General’s wife is not that General” | IAGO |
“Confess yourself freely to her, importune her help to put you in your place again” | IAGO |
“And what’s he then that says I play the villain” | IAGO |
“So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her won goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all” | IAGO |
Iago’s motives for his revenge: | 1) Othello may have slept with Iago’s wife.2) Othello made Casio his lieutenant instead of Iago.3) Iago hates Othello.4) Iago may be jealous of Othello having Desdemona |
Othello (Act 1 and 2) Quiz
July 1, 2019