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“All our service,/in every point twice done and then done double” Lady Macbeth (Act 1, scene 6) Hyperbole “If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well/It were done quickly” Macbeth (Act 1, scene 7) Euphemism “Not so happy,…

Why did King Duncan give Lady Macbeth a diamond? Visitors staying as guests in other people houses were expected to give them a gift in the form of a thank you. Banquo is exhausted from the day’s battles, yet he…

Pride – focus on names just as in Romeo and Juliet “were I the Moor, I would not be Iago” Purity – Elizabethan gardeners associated it with virginity; purest of fruits so when she loses the handkerchief Othello sees her…

Iago- deception VS reality I am not what I am Iago- misogyny Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags ! / Thieves, thieves ! Desdemona- betrayal [choosing her own husband was] Treason of the blood Iago- evil (dramatic…

“I love the gentle Desdemona” Act 1 Scene 2 on Desdemona “Keep up your bright swords for the dew will rust them” Othello advice a1s2 “I therefore beg it not to please the palate of my appetite” Court scene- Desdemona…

What did Iago do to make sure he would be Othello’s Lieutenant?why didn’t it work? Got three recommendations from high standing peopleSomeone else (Cassio) got the job Why is Iago against Cassio being the lieutenant? he’s never fought in a…

“I am not what I am” (I.I.) S: IagoL: RoderigoC: Opening scene where Iago is saying how much he hates Othello so Roderigo tells him to quit so he gives a speech on how he’s using Othello “Fathers, from hence…

Othello A moor-outsider, dark skin, good warrior not a good speaker/ (but not really a bad speaker either-irony).Marries DesdemonaJealous of what he thinks is true of Desdemona and CassioProtagonist of the tragedy Desdemona Married to OthelloDaughter of BrabantioFaithful/ loyalHer father…

3:3 O, beware, my Lord, of jealousy; it is the green – eyed monster which doth mocks the meat it feeds on 3:4 My noble Moor is true of mind and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are…

‘Liar, betrayer and mental torturer’ Honigmann 2001 ‘The character of Iago is so conducted, that he is from the first scene to the last hated and despised’ Dr. Johnson [regarding criminal characters] ‘We think not so much of the crimes…