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…

Act I … “I am not what I am” IagoHe is a manipulator “Fathers, from hence trust not daughters’ minds…By what you see them act.” BurbantioHe can’t comprehend that his daughter would sign her loyalty over to a moor over…

“With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio” (II.i.183-184) Web/trapping imagerydepicts Iago’s predatory character “Her eye must be fed. And what delight shall she have to look on the devil?” (II.i.246-247). Eating/consuming;…

in act V scene 2 Othello almost convinces himself not to murder Desdemona by her balmy breath which might persuade justice to break her what sword in act V scene 2 Othello wants people to know that he loved not_____,…

Shakespearean tragedy was a combination of ________________ and __________________. Aristotle (Greek) and Seneca (Roman) Six Characteristics of Shakespearean Tragedy 1. socially superior character2. strives for personal goals—makes CHOICES3. caught in a web of unforseen circumstances that result from choices4. hostility…

Acting/wordplay … … “Which as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.” If cassio continues to hold D’s hand when O enters, this could be used to create a poisonous image in othello’s…

Iago Who is Othello’s standard bearer, or “ancient”? Iago Who said, “I am not what I am”? oratory Brabantio’s words are an example of ________ when he says “Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds by what you see…

Iago 3.3 Oh, beware my lord, of jealousy. It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on Emilia 3.4 A monster / Begot upon itself, born on itself Iago 3.3 Trifles light as air /…

Professional jealousy “I have already chose my officer’ . / and what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Flouretine – A fellow almost damned in a fair wife.” 1:1 what quote shows Othello will be easily…