Othello Flashcards

discern part of speech – verbdefinition – to differentiate between two or more thingssynonym – anticipate sentence – the kids couldn’t discern the two objects from each other because they looked just like each other discretion part of speech –…

What moral lessons can we learn from the play Othello? • Its lessons seem to be summed up in the few and simple words: “Thou shall not lie”: “To thine own self be true.” Every character in the play who…

Coleridge “Shakespeare had portrayed [Othello] the very opposite to a jealous man” Rymer calls Othello a “jealous boob” Kirschbaum Othello is “understandably human – but he is not greatly noble” A C Bradley describes how Othello sees his murder of…

Othello A Moor (African); a general of the city state pf Venice; falls in love and marries Desdemona Iago Othello’s ensign (lower rank of soldier); works revenge on Cassio and Othello Desdemona Married to Othello; daughter of Brabantio Brabantio Venetian…

finish this: Elizabethans believed that marriages should be ________________ due to ________ arranged, wealth Elizabethans believed that woman had a ___________ status than men lower Elizabethans believed that social position was ______________ a natural consequence of birth Elizabethans believed that…

How does Shakespeare begin the play such that the audience is immediately involved? -There isn’t a prologue or introduction.-We find two characters in the middle of a conversation-He forces audience to try and figure out what is happening. How does…

Othello ”He is full of the most vehement passion” – A.C. Bradley Othello ”Othello’s colour and gender make him occupy contradictory positions in relation to power” – Ania Loomba, author of postcolonial works Desdemona ”accepts her culture’s dictum that she…

The play doesn’t change, we change as a society Adrian Lester There is a discrepancy between what is being said about him and what he is doing Margaret reynolds Desdemona is an idealised idea of the female Ato Quayson Othello…

“Do it not with poison. Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated.” Iago “It were not for your quiet nor your good,/Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom,/To let you know my thoughts.” Othello “Farewell, farewell!/If…

[He falls into a ______.] trance IAGO – “My ____ is fall’n into an ________.” lord, epilepsy OTHELLO – “Dost thou ____ __?” mock me IAGO – “I mock you? No, by ______.” heaven OTHELLO – “Look how he ______…