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Scene 1 What Scene is this? Morocco has come to take the casket challenge to win Portia’s hand, but she tells him that if he fails, he may never marry. He addresses his skin color and states how he is…

Bianca Cassio’s mistress Emilia Attendant to Desdemona, Wife of Iago Desdemona Tells of the letters found in Roderigo’s pockets Roderigo He is in love with Desdemona and will do anything to win her love Iago He was passed over for…

languishes becomes dispirited; appeals for sympathy errs in ignorance mistakes not with intent, but by accident discern’st distinguish “not a jot” means “not a bit” haply perhaps because chamberers noble lords and ladies who spend most of their time indoors…

Foreword Notes -Chief argument for this Othello unit: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is the greatest poet dramatist who has ever lived.->Whereas Mr. W says we have outgrown The Odyssey, we will never (when it comes to fiction) catch up to Shakespeare.…

“Even now, now, very now, an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe.” (Iago) Act 1 Scene 1: Iago uses images of bestiality and black/white to present Othello as a sexual beast and Desdemona as pure. “you’ll have…

Emilia key quote on men and women stresses Desdemona’s vulnerability and connotes danger they are all but stomachs, and we all but food: / they eat us hungerly, and when they are full/ they belch us Is Cassio a misogynist…

“A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus”- Second Senator Wider conflict/wider war zone. Throughout Othello there is a parallel between wide and small scales in conflict. A domestic upset can still be unstable just like a wider conflict. “Valiant…

Which 2 people stab Cassio? Roderigo and Iago Why doesn’t Cassio get hurt when Roderigo stabs him? Roderigo stabbed him in the chest but Cassio was wearing armor Where does Iago stab Cassio? The leg Who stabs Roderigo? Cassio Why…

Iago “Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.” Iago “I am not what I am.” Brabantio “The worser welcome. I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors.” Brabantio “What tell’st thou me of robbing? This is Venice.…

Act I Scene I. Iago says this to Roderigo when he is telling Roderigo about how he does not really love Othello, he just had to pretend that he does. Shows that Iago is not truthworthy “For when my outward…