| “For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart in compliment external,’tis not long after but I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at: I am not what I am” | Speaker: IagoAudience: roderigo Situation: wearing your heart on your sleeve means acting how you feel. |
| O thou foul their, where hast thou stow’d my daughter? Damn’d as thou art, thou hast enchanted her; | Speaker: Brabantio audience: othelloSituation: he is accusing othello of using magic to get his daughter Desdemona to fall in love with othello |
| I hate the moor: and it is thought abroad,that twixt my sheets he has done my office: I know not if’ be true; but I, for mere suspicion in that kind, will do as if for surety | Speaker: Iago Audience: audience Situation: Iago is talking about the rumor but still wants to get revenge on othello. |
| I am not merry; but I do beguile the thing I am, by seeming otherwise. | Speaker: Desdemona Audience: audience Situation: Desdemona is worried about othello not coming home & causes problems in the future because she acted like she didn’t care |
| For that I do suspect the lusty moor bath leap’d into my seat; the thought whereof doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards; and nothing can or shall content my soul till I am even’d with him, wife for wife, or failing so, yet that I put the moor at least into jealousy so strong that judgement cannot cure | Speaker: Iago Audience: audience Situation: Iago is gonna try to make othello so jealous that he won’t be able to function. |
| Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving: you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser. | Speaker: Iago Audience: Cassio Situation: Cassio is worried about his reputation and Iago is saying things to make him feel better and that all that matters is what you think of yourself |
| O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green:eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on | Speaker: Iago Audience: othello Situation: Iago is telling othello false information about Desdemona & Cassio, and he is telling him not to get jealous |
| Villain, be sure thou prove my love a *****,be sure of it: give me the ocular proof: or by the worth of man’s eternal soul, thou hadst been better have been born a dog than Answer my waked wrath | Situation: othello Audience: Iago Situation: othello wants proof about Desdemona & Cassio |
| Twill out, twill out: I peace! No, I will speak as liberal as the north: let heaven and men and Devils, let them all all all cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak | Speaker: EmiliaAudience: Iago Situation: Iago is telling Emilia to go home before she says anything and she denies him and begins to talk |
| When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well; of one not easily jealous, but being wrought perplex’d in the extreme | Speaker: othelloAudience: people in the room at the end Situation: othello is about to commit suicide |
| Demand me nothing: what you know, you know: from this time I never will speak word | Speaker: Iago Audience. Othello Situation. 2 reasons why he is refusing to speak is because he doesn’t want to tell him anything else and he wants him to die not knowing |
| Shakespeare birth & death | April 26th 1564- April 23rd 1616 |
| Shakespeare: where he grew up | Stratfordupon-Avon |
| Shakespeare: wife | Anne Hathaway |
| Shakespeare: theatre he created | Globe |
| What made Shakespeare’s plays so good | 1: the power, clarity, creativity, and depth of his language and poetry 2: how he reinterpreted other people’s stories 3: the psychological depth of his characters 4: the depth and breath his stories explore issues themes, and ideas |
| Othello | Weakness: jealously between Desdemona and Cassio- weak when it comes to love-AggressiveBelief system: -a loyal wife- trust -dynamic |
| Iago | – villain-evil-gets his way-good with his wordsWeaknesses: doing the dirty work Belief system: money, position, power -static |
| Desdemona | -not very smart -gentle -clueless-weakness: makes things worse for herself-static |
| Emilia | -clever -realist-understands things-smart -stands up for herself Weakness: doing something wrong Static |
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July 7, 2019