| Part 1 | Duke and senior members wait for Othello |
| Part 2 | Court case-like- Brabantio’s accusation and Othello’s defence |
| Part 3 | Desdemona and Iago enter- Desdemona asks to go with Othello and confirms his story |
| Part 4 | Iago consoles Roderigo |
| she loved me for the dangers I had passed and I loved her that she did pity them | medieval courtship seen as a conquest- are they in love or in love with idea of being in love? |
| Structure | Othello pulled from private to professional life |
| comparison with a1s2 | more formal and static |
| put money in thy purse | Iago profits from dissuading Roderigo and Roderigo knows his case is desperate |
| Iago’s use of prose when talking to Roderigo | disregard for Roderigo, shows ability to manipulate, ability to think fast, honesty, simplicity represents false honesty- contrast with poetry |
| I hav’t/ It is engendr’d. Hell and night/ Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light | light/ dark imagery connotes race, must Othello is the light. Birth connotes new beginnings |
| my heart’s subdued/ Even to the very quality of my lord | Desdemona is a submissive wife |
| ‘noble’ ‘lord of duty’ | Desdemona is devoted to her father |
| I love to Moor to live with him… let me go with him | Desdemona is assertive- contrasts to idea that she’s ‘corrupted’ |
| stolen | Brabantio views Desdemona as his property |
| my life upon her faith! | irony- Othello will later kill Desdemona for being unfaithful |
| ‘a man he is of honesty and trust’ ‘honest Iago’ | Othello misplaces trust in Iago-dramatic irony |
| If virtue no delighted beauty lack/ Your son-in-law is far more fair than black | rhyming couplet- key idea- racism, makes Othello lose confidence |
| Look to her Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/ She has deceived her father and may thee- Brabantio | rhyming couplet- key idea- foreshadows later events, sight motif |
Othello Act 1 Scene 3
July 4, 2019