| Act 1 Scene 1- Iago illustrates Othello’s hubris | But he as loving his own pride and purposes |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Iago illustrates Othello’s pride and reputation as a soldier | Horribly stuffed with epithets of war |
| Act 1 Scene 1 – Iago’s casual sexism as he discusses Cassio | A fellow almost damned in a fair wife |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Iago reveals his motives, the jealousy of Cassio’s promotion | Preferment goes by letter and affection//And not by old gradation |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Iago reveals he only does his duty to seek revenge on Othello | I follow him to serve my turn upon him |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Iago revels his false nature | But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve// For daws to peck at- I am now what I am |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Roderigo’s casual racism as he discusses Othello | What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Iago objectifies Desdemona as he and Roderigo awake Brabantio | Look to you house, your daughter, and your bags! Thieves, thieves! |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Iago’s racism as he discusses Othello and his wife to Brabantio | an old black ram//Is tupping your white ewe |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Iago’s racism continues as he discusses Othello’s marriage | you’ll have your//daughter covered with a Barbary horse; you’ll have your// nephews neigh to you |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Brabantio doesn’t know the truth in his words | Thou art a villain |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Roderigo illustrates that he is repulsed by the marriage | gross revolt |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Iago’s dramatic irony as he suggests that he should leave before Othello arrives | It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place//To be produced |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Brabantio introduces a central theme to the play | o, she deceives me |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Brabantio expresses his betrayal | O treason of the blood |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Brabantio confirms the Rennaissance stereotype of black men | Is there not charm// By which property of youth and maidhood//May be abused |
| Act 1 Scene 1- Brabantio makes his private conflict public | Get weapons, ho!//And raise some special officers of night |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Iago’s dramatic irony as he pretend to be fault to Othello | To do no contrived murder |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Iago suggests that Brabantio has betrayed Othello’s honour | And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms// Against your honour |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Othello initially illustrates his pride as an officer | My services which I have done the signory//Shall out-tongue his complaints |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Othello further illustrates his honour as an officer | I fetch my life and being//From men of royal siege |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Othello expresses his greatness of soul as he declares his love for Desdemona | But that I love the gentle Desdemona//For the seas’ worth |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Othello declared his hubris as he suggests that he must be found | My parts, my title, and my perfect soul//Shall manifest me rightly |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Othello subverts the traditional stereotype of soldiers as he suggests that violence isn’t always the way | Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them//Good signor, you shall command with years//Than with your weapons |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Brabantio declares that Othello has charmed Desdemona | Damned as thou art, thou has enchanted her |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Brabantio illustrates Desdemona as a weak victim to the cunning sexual predator of Othello | If she in chains of magic were not bound//Whether a maid, so tender, fair and happy//so opposite to marriage that she shunned |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Brabantio reveals his casual xenophobia as he suggests that one should be afraid of Othello rather than in love | Of such a thing as thou: to fear, not to delight |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Brabantio confirms the Rennaissance stereotype of black man as he presents Othello as a cunning sexual predator | That thou hast practised on her with foul charms//Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Brabantio presents Othello as a villain | For an abuser of the world |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Othello asserts his power as an officer declaring that violence is not necessary | Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it//Without a prompter |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Brabantio presents Desdemona as his property as he declares Othello’s crimes before the senate | She us abused, stolen from me, and corrupted |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Brabantio presents Desdemona as the innocent victim of Othello’s abuse | Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense//Sans witchcraft could not |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Othello dispels all rumors as he addresses the senate with respect | Most potent, grave and reverend signors |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Othello’s dramatic irony as he suggests he does not speak well in front of a crowd | Rude am I in my speech//And little blessed with soft phrase of peace |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Othello also suggests that Desdemona is now is property | I won his daughter |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Brabantio continues to present Desdemona as a weak and innocent victim as Othello attempts to justify his actions | A maiden never bold//Of spirit so still and quiet that her motion//Blushed at herself |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Brabantio continues to illustrates the xenophobia of his time | To fall in love with what she feared to look on |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Brabantio expresses the unnatural nature of this marriage | Against all rules of nature |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Brabantio a likens Othello to the Devil | To find out practices of cunning hell |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Othello presents a greatness of soul as he allows Desdemona to speak for herself | And let her speak of me before her father |
| Act 1 Scene 3- A moment of foreshadowing as Othello presents a greatness of soul as he illustrates his overwhelming trust for Desdemona | but let your sentence//Even fall upon my life |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Othello presents his hubris as he discuss the difficulties that he has overcome to the senate | From year to year- the battles, sieges, fortunes//That I have passed |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Othello presents he hubris as he boasts about his exotic adventures to the senate | Rough quarried, rocks, and hills whose heads tough heaven |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Othello first discusses why Desdemona was attracted to him | She’d come again, and with a greedy ear//Devour up my discourse |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Othello discusses the sympathy that Desdemona felt towards his struggles | She gave me for my pains a world of sighs |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Othello discusses how he enjoyed the pity he received from Desdemona | She loved me for the danger I had passed// And I loved her, that she did pity them |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Desdemona is allowed to speech and expresses how she belonged to her father | You are lord of all me duty |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Brabantio does not understand the harmful power of words | But words are words; I never yet did hear// That the bruised heart was pieced through the ear |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Desdemona expresses that she now belong completely to Othello | My hear’t subdued//Even to the very quality of my lord |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Desdemona discusses Othello’s honour | And to his honours and he valiant parts//Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Othello presents his greatness of soul as he declares that he is not simply with Desdemona for reasons of lust | I therefore beg it not//To please the palate of my appetite |
| Act 1 Scene 3- A moment of dramatic irony as Othello declares his trust for Iago and puts his wife in Iago’s care | A man he is of honesty and trust://To his conveyance I assign my wife |
| Act 1 Scene 3- In a moment way ahead of his time the duke suggests that there is more to Othello than his race | If virtue no delighted beauty lack//Your son-in-law is far more fair than black |
| Act 1 Scene 3- In a moment of foreshadowing Brabantio plants a seed of doubt into Othello’s head | Look to her Moor, if thou hast eyes to see//She has deceived her father and may thee |
| Act 1 Scene 3- In response to Brabantio’s seed of doubt Othello presents his overwhelming trust for Desdemona | My life upon he faith |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Othello makes an error of judgement as he puts Desdemona in Iago’s control | Honest Iago,//My Desdemona must I leave to thee |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Roderigo expresses he desire to die after he learns about the marriage, this mirrors Othello’s speech moments before his death | It is silliness to live, when to live is torment…we have a prescription to die |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Iago declares the importance of will over instinct | Our bodies are our gardeners, to the which our will are gardeners |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Iago further illustrates the need to control lust with will | It is merely the lust of the blood and a permission of the will |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Iago reveals the greedy motives of his support for Roderigo | Put money in they purse |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Iago presents casual racism as he questions Othello’s will | These Moors are changable in their wills |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Iago reveals his manipulation of Roderigo for money | Thus do I make my fool me purse |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Iago reveals that is actions are simply for enjoyment presenting him as a true villain | But for my sport and profit |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Iago suggests that he is going to manipulate Othello | to abuse Othello’s ear |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Iago identifies Othello’s fatal flaw | The Moor if of a free and open nature//Than thinks men honest that but seem to be |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Iago presents casual racism as he refers to Othello as an animal | And will as tenderly be led by th’y nose//As asses are |
| Act 1 Scene 3- Iago’s plan has been formed | Hell and night//Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Montano declares that the Turkish Fleet have drowed | If that the Turkish fleet//Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned |
| Act 2 Scene 1- In a moment of dramatic irony it is suggested that the battles are over | Our wars are done |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Cassio’s caring nature and genuine love for Othello are revealed, this dispels all previous rumors | yet he looks sadly//And prays the Moor be safe |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Cassio presents a genuine concern for Othello who has not yet arrived at Cyprus | O, let the heavens//Give him defence against the elements |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Iago presents casual sexism as he suggests that his wife Emilia talks to much | would she give you so much of her lips//As of her tongue she oft bestow on me//You’d have enough |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Desdemona dispels all previous rumors as she appears bold when she defends Emilia from Iago | Alas, she has no speech |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Iago appears sexist as he suggests that even his own wife lacks sexual morality | You rise to play and go to bed to work |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Iago reveals more of plot to manipulate Cassio | With as little a web as this I will ensnare as great a fly as Cassio |
| Act 2 Scene 1- It is a true high point for the tragic hero as Othello arrives in Cyprus | It gives me wonder great as my content//To see you here before me. O , my soul’s joy |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Othello’s overwhelming joy is clear as he expresses his life is fulfilled | If it were now to die//T’were now to be most happy |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Othello can not hide his joy in this high point of the play | I cannot speak enough of this content//It stops me here; it is too much of joy |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Iago a likens Othello to the devil | And what delight//shall she have to look on the devil? |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Iago suggests that sex will ruin Desdemona and Othello’s relationship | When the blood is made dull with the act of sport |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Iago identifies Cassio’s quick temper as a flaw that can be used against him | he’s rash and very sudden in choler, and haply//with his trucheon may strike at you |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Iago identifies Othello’s greatness of soul as a flaw that can be used against him | The Moor//Is of a constant, loving, noble nature//And I dare think, he’ll prove to Desdemona// A most dear husband |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Iago expresses his motives as revenge as he belives Othello has slept with his wife | Till I am evened with him, wife for wife; |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Iago attempts to use jealousy to seek his revenge | I put the Moor//At least into a jealous so strong//That judgment cannot cure |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Cassio expresses his view of Desdemona | Indeed, she is a most fresh and delicate creature |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Cassio appreciates Desdemona’s beauty | An inviting eye, and yet methinks right modest//…she is indeed perfection |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Cassio identifies alcohol as his weakness | I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Cassio reveals the importance of reputation as he is desperate for people to not think he is drunk | Do not think, gentleman, I am drunk…I am not drunk now: I can stand well and I speak well enough |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago reveals the power of words as he so easily betrays Cassio | I had rather this tongue cut from my mouth//Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago presents that all men are weak willed | But men are men; the best sometimes forget |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Othello presents an error of judgement as he trusts Iago over Cassio | I know, Iago//Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter//Making it light to Cassio |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Othello presents an error of judgment as he fires Cassio | Cassio I love thee//But nevermore be officer of mine |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Cassio is devastated as he he loses his reputation | Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Cassio curses the alcohol as he is left devastated | Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredience is evil |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago reveals that Othello’s devotion to Desdemona could act as his fatal flaw | he hath devoted and given up himself to the contemplation, mark and denotement of her parts and graces |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago reveals that Desdemona’s kind nature is a flaw that can be used against her | She is of a free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition… she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested |
| Act 2 Scene 3- A moment of dramatic irony as Iago reveals himself to be the villain | And what’s he then that says I play the villain//When this advice is free I give and honest |
| Act 2 Scene 3- A moment when Iago further illustrates Desdemona’s innocent and free nature | She’s framed as fruitful//As the free elements |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago reinforces Othello’s fatal flaw as his love for Desdemona | His soul is so enfetted to her love |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago reveals the deadline nature of words | I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago reveals that it is Desdemona’s goodness that will result in their tragic downfall | And by how much she strives to do him good//She shall undo her credit with the Moor |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago declares that he will turn Desdemona’s strengths into weaknesses | So I will turn her virtue into pitch// and out of her own goodness make the net//That shall enmesh them all |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Roderigo has a moment of realisation that he is the victim | I shall have so much experience for my pains; and so, with no money at all, and a little more with, return to Venice |
| Act 3 Scene 1- Cassio discusses the purity of Desdemona | virtuous Desdemona |
| Act 3 Scene 1- Cassio makes an error of judgement as discusses his trust for Iago | I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Desdemona makes an error of judgment as she confirms that she will help Cassio | be thou assured good Cassio, I will do// all my abilities in thy behalf |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Desdemona makes an error of judgement as she states that she trusts Iago | O, that’s an honest fellow |
| Act 3 Scene 3- In a moment of dramatic irony Desdemona doesn’t know the truth in here words as she states she would rather die than give up on Cassio | For thy solicitor shall rather die//Than give thy cause away |
| Act 2 Scene 1- Desdemona is putting up a front to maintain appearances as she waits with Iago and Emilia for Othello to arrive safely to Cyprus | I am no merry, but I do beguile// The thing I am by seeming otherwise |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Othello reveals that he and Desdemona are going to have sex for the first time | The purchases made, the fruits are to ensue: That profit’s yet to come ‘tween me and you |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago appears crude and bitter as he wishes that Othello and Desdemona have a good time in bed, this contrasts the formality of Cassio’s language | Well, happiness to their sheets |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago presents Roderigo as the tragic victim of love | Rodergio, Whom love hath turned almost wrong side out |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago introduces the power of pride as he sings with Cassio to get him drunk | ‘Tis pride that pulls the country down |
| Act 2 Scene 3- When Cassio is drunk he reinforces his power over Iago | The lieutenant is to be saved before the Ancient |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago begins to manipulate Montano into believing that Cassio should not be trust by Othello | I fear the trust Othello puts in him |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Montano presents Othello’s good nature as he defends the trust Othello put in Cassio | his good nature//Prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio// and looks not on his evils |
| Act 2 Scene 3- In a moment of dramatic iron Iago damns Cassio for his drunken behavious | You will be shamed for ever! |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Othello states that he Cassio has ruined his reputation as lieutenant | that you unlace your reputation thus |
| Act 2 Scene 3- In a moment of dramatic irony Othello states that he is now ruled by his blood | Now, by heaven// My blood begins my safer guides to rule |
| Act 2 Scene 3- In a moment of dramatic irony Othello criticises those who make their private conflict public | To manage private and domestic quarrel in night, and on the court and guard of safety |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago states that when angered men do harm to those they love | As men in rage strike those that wish them best |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago reveals his bitter opinions of status and reputation | Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit and lost without deserving |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago revels that Othello now belongs to Desdemona | Our General’s wife is now the General |
| Act 2 Scene 3- Iago reveals a possible fatal flaw of Othello as he is completely devoted to Dsdemona | he hath devoted and given up himself to the contemplation, mark and denotement of her parts and graces |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Iago begins to plants seeds of doubt into Iago’s mind as he suggests that Cassio is sneaking around behind Othello’s back | I cannot think it// That he would sneak away so guilty-like// Seeing you coming |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello states that he will give Desdemona everything | I will deny thee nothing |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Desdemona proves to Emilia that she is obedient but challenges Emilia’s obedience | Emilia come. Be as your fancies teach you. Whate’er you be, I am obedient |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello forshadows the chaos that occurs when he no longer loves Desdemona | But I do love thee! And when I love thee not, chaos is come again |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello is desperate to find out the evils in Iago’s mind | As if there were some monster in his thought//Too hideous to be shown |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello makes an error of judgement as he continues to trust Iago | And for I know thou’rt full of honesty// And weigh’st thy words before thou giv’st them breath |
| Act 3 Scene 3 – In a moment of dramatic irony Iago states that men should be who they are | Men should be what they seem |
| Act 3 Scene 3- As Othello discusses Iago’s thoughts he illustrates the power of words and rumors | As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts//The worst of words |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Iago states that it is in his nature to look into things he suspects | As I confess it is my nature’s plague//To spy into abuses |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Iago continues to act false as he states his honesty prevents him from sharing his thoughts | Nor for my manhood, honesty and wisdom//To let you know my thoughts |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Iago contradicts his previous thoughts as he states that his reputation and good name is of great importance to him | But he that filches me my good name//Robs me of that which not enriches him//And makes me poor indeed |
| Act 3 Scene 3- In arguably the most famous lines of the play, Iago warns Othello about the dangers of jealousy | O beware, my lore, of jealousy// It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock//The meat it feed on |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello denies that he will ever make a life of jealousy | Thinks’t thou I’d make a life of jealousy//To follow still the changes of the mood//With fresh suspicions? |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello illustrates his love and admiration for Desdemona but also creates a sense of identity for his wife | To say my wife is fair, loves company//Is free of speech, sings, plays, and danses well |
| Act 3 Scene 3- In a moment of dramatic irony Othello criticises his future actions by suggesting that it would be a weakness to doubt his wife | Not from mine own weak merits will I draw//The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt |
| Act 3 Scene 3- There is a self-assured arrogance as Othello states that Desdemona chose him | For she had eyes and chose me |
| Act 3 Scene 3- In a moment of dramatic irony Othello states that he will not act unless he has proof | I’ll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; And on the proof, there is no more but this |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Iago suggests that Othello watches his wife with Cassio | Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio |
| Act 3 Scene 3- In a moment of dramatic irony Iago states that he wishes to protect Othello’s nature | I would not have your free and noble nature//Out of self-bounty be abused |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Iago plants seed of doubt into Othello’s mind as he mirrors the previous advice of Brabantio | She did deceive her father, marrying you |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello makes an error of judgement as he completely trusts the words of Iago | This fellow’s of exceeding honesty// And knows all qualities with a learned spirit// of human dealings |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello suggests that he not gentle of soft enough for Desdemona | Haply, for I am black// And have not those soft parts of conversation |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello states that he has lost Desdemona and now he must hate her | She’s gone: I am abused, and my relief// Must be to loathe her |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello discusses his hate for marriage | O, curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creature ours//And not their appetites |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello illustrates his reliance on fate and destiny | ‘Tis destiny unshunnable, like death |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Emilia states how she has stolen the Hankerchief to give to Iago | This was her first remembrance from the Moor// My wayward husband hath a hundred times// Wooed me to steal it |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Emilia tells Iago that she has stolen the hankerchieft | Why that the Moor first gave to Desdemona// That which so often you did bid me to steal |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Iago states that he is already changing the Moor | The Moor already changes with my poison |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello states that he would rather not know about the affair | I swear ’tis better to be much abused//Than but to know’t a little |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello is saying goodbye to his previous life | Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!//Farewell the plumed troops and the bug wars//That make ambition virtue…Farewell Othello’s occupation gone |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello discusses that only those who know about their sorrows feel the pain | He that is robbed not wanting what is stolen//Let him know’t, and he’s not robbed at all |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello doesn’t realise the truth in his words as he demands that Iago finds proof | Villain, be sure thou prove my love a *****; be sure of it |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Iago states that it is better to be wise that honest | I should be wise; for honesty’s a fool// And loses that is works for |
| Act 3 Scene 3- The extent of Othello’s tragic downfall becomes clear as he begins to contradict in his speech | By the world// I think my wife be honest, and think she is not// I think that thou are just, and think thou art not |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Iago reveals that passion is Othello’s fatal flaw | you are eaten up with passion |
| Act 3 Scene 3-Iago states that Cassio has spoke about Desdemona in his sleep | There are a kind of men so loose of soul// That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello loses all control and plans to violently attack his wife | I’ll tear her all to pieces |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello reveals his desire for revenge | Arise black vengence, from they hollow cell |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello loses control and sees no other resolution but violence | O , blood, blood, blood |
| Act 3 Scene 4- Desdemona reveals that Othello is not capable of jealousy | but my noble Moor// Is true of mind and made of no such baseness//As jealous creature are, it were enough to put him to ill thinking |
| Act 3 Scene 4- Desdemona reveals once again that Othello is not capable of jealousy | I think the sun where he was born//Drew all such humours from him |
| Act 3 Scene 4- Othello questions Desdemona’s virtue | there’s a young and sweating devil here |
| Act 3 Scene 4- Othello reveals the importance of the hankerchief | if she lost it// Or made gift of it, my father’s eye should hold her loathed, and his spirits should hunt//After new fancies |
| Act 3 Scene 4- Othello reveals the magic of the hankerchief | there’s magic in the web of it |
| Act 3 Scene 4- Emilia reveals that Othello may be jealous | Is not this man jealous |
| Act 3 Scene 4- Emilia reveals that women are the victims of the desires of men | They are all but stomachs, and we are all but food// They eat us hungerly, and when they are full// They belch us |
| Act 3 Scene 4- Desdemona reveals that Othello has changed, illustrating the extent of his tragic downfall | My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him//were he in favour as in humour altered |
| Act 3 Scene 4- Desdemona defends her own right to speak | For my free speech! |
| Act 3 Scene 4- Emilia shares her opinions on jealousy | It is a monster// Begot upon itself, born on itself |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Othello reveals his opinions about the affair | it is hypocrisy against the devil |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Othello reveals that those who cheat are tempted by the devil | The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Othello loses control of his speech | Lie with her? Lie on her |
| Act 4 Scene 1 – Othello continues to lose control of his speech | Hankerchief – confession- hankercheif! |
| Act 4 Scene 1 – In a moment of dramatic irony Othello reveals that he has not been affected by words but in fact actions | It is not words that shakes me thus |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Iago reveals that his manipulation is succeeding | Work on. My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Iago suggests that Bianca is a prostitute | A housewife, that by selling her desires// Buys herself bread and clothes. It is a creature// That dotes on Cassio |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Iago reveals that he is going to make Cassio smile and laugh to anger Othello | Poor Cassio’s smiles, gestures, and light behaviour// Quite in the wrong |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Cassio discusses the un-natural nature of a marriage between himself and Bianca, which further illustrates the importance of his reputation | do not think it so unwholesome |
| Act 4 Scene 1- In a moment of dramatic irony, Iago confesses to be the villain | I am a very villain else |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Othello asks Iago who he should murder Cassio | How shall I murder him Cassion |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Iago continues to provoke Othello as he discusses the affair | And to see how he prizes the// foolish women your wife |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Othello reveals that despite his anger he can’t help but love his wife | A fine woman,a fair woman, a sweet woman |
| Act 4 Scene 1 – Othello suddenly wishes death and damnation on his wife | Ay, let her rot and perish, and be damned tonight, for she shall not live |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Othello suggests that after this affair he can not love again | No, my heart is turned to stone: I strike it and it hurts my hand |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Othello continues to suggest that there is noone better that Desdemona | O, the world hath not a sweeter creature! |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Othello once again contradicts himself as he suggests that he wishes to violently harm Desdemona | I will chop her into messes |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Iago tells Othello how to murder his wife | strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Othello suggests that the justice of murder settle him | The justice of it pleases me |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Lodovico reveals that this new Othello would not be believed in Venice | My lord, this would not be believed in Venice |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Othello reveals that women’s tears are fake | If that earth could teem with a women’s tears//Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile |
| Act 4 Scene 1- Iago’s manipulation continues as he declares his honesty | It is not honesty in me to speak// What I have seen and known |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Emilia swears on her life to Othello that Desdemona is honest | I durst my lord to wager she is honest lay down my stole at stake |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Othello believes that Desdemona is manipulative and sly in her actions | This is a subtle *****, A closet lock and key of vilainous secrets |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Desdemona continues to pledge that she is honest | your true and loyal wife |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Othello declares that Desdemona is false | thou art false as hell |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Othello suggests that his fatal flaw is his lack of patience | I should have found in some place of my souL//A drop of patience |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Othello reveals the danger in Desdemona despite the fact that she appears honest | O, thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smells’t so sweet |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Desdemona wishes that Emilia lay out her wedding sheets | Lay on my bed my wedding sheets |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Desdemona reveals to Iago that it is her destiny to suffer | It is my wretched fortune |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Emilia illustrates great power as she is aware that someone is behind Othello’s jealousy | I will be hanged is some eternal villain//some busy and intriguing rogue//Have not devised this slander |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Emilia continues to illustrate her power as she suggest someone is controlling Othello’s jealousy | The Moor’s abused by some most villainous knave |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Desdemona reveals that despite Othello’s unkindness, her love will continue | Unkindness may do much//And his unkindness may defeat my life//But never taint my love |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Roderigo has a brief moment of realisation that he is the victim of Iago’s manipulation | Every day thou daff’st me with some device Iago…keeps’t from me all conveniency. than suppliest me with the last advantage of hope |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Roderigo acknowledges that he has been manipulated by Iago | I have heard too much; for your words and performances are no kin together |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Rodergio’s moment of realisation continues | With naught but truth. I have wasted myself out of means |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Iago manipulates Roderigo into killing Cassio | I will show you such a necessity in death that you shall think yourself bound to put it on hime |
| Act 4 Scene 3- Desdemona that her love for Othello makes her accept his actions | my love doth so approve him |
| Act 4 Scene 3- Desdemona suggests that she can’t forget the Willow song | That song tonight will not go from my mind |
| Act 4 Scene 3- Desdemona appears critical of men | O, these med, these men |
| Act 4 Scene 3- Desdemona questions whether a woman would treat her husband as badly as husbands treat their wives | That there be women do abuse their husbands in such gross kind |
| Act 4 Scene 3- Emilia playfully reveals that sh would mis-treat her husband | No I neither by this heavenly light: I might do’t as well i’th dark |
| Act 4 Scene 3- Emilia playfully suggests that sometimes small sacrifices are necessary for great success | The world’s a huge thing: it it a great price for a small vice |
| Act 4 Scene 3- Emilia suggests that for men to have great success they must not take themselves too seriously | But for all the whole world! U’d’s pity, who would not make her husband a cuckhold to make him a monarch? |
| Act 4 Scene 3- Emilia blames men for the bad behaviour of women | But I do think it is their husbands’ fault// if wives do fall |
| Act 4 Scene 3- Emilia lists some of the downfalls of men which results in the bad behaviour of women | they slack their duties//And pour our treasures into foreign laps//Or else break out in peevish jealousies |
| Act 4 Scene 3- Emilia suggests that women seek revenge on their husbands | though we have some grace, yet we have some revenge |
| Act 4 Scene 3- Emilia suggests that women are as powerful as men | Let husbands know their wives have sense like them: they see and smell//And have their palates both for sweet and sour//As husbands have |
| Act 4 Scene 3- Emilia blames men for the ills of women | The ills we do, their ills instruct us to |
| Act 5 Scene 1- Roderigo admits that he has been manipulated by Iago into harming Cassio | I have no great devotion to the deed// And yet he hath given me satisfying reason |
| Act 5 Scene 1- Iago reveals the true extent of his villainy, by suggesting the death of both Cassio and Roderigo will benefit him | whether he kill Cassio//or Cassio him, or each do kill the other//Every way makes me gain |
| Act 5 Scene 1- Iago reveals his jealousy of Cassio | He hath a daily beauty in his life//That makes me ugly |
| Act 5 Scene 1- Othello continues to make an error of judgement as he continues to believe in Iago | ‘Tis he! O brave Iago, honest and just//That hast such noble sense of thy friend’s wrong thou teachest me! |
| Act 5 Scene 1- Othello confirms that he is going to kill his wife in her bed | Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted |
| Act 5 Scene 1- Roderigo correctly identified Iago as the villain after he has been stabbed | O wretched villain!…O damned Iago! O inhuman do! |
| Act 5 Scene 1- Iago blames Bianca for Cassio’s injuries | I do suspect this trash//To be a party in this injury |
| Act 5 Scene 1- Iago continues to suggest that Bianca is responsible for Cassio’s injury | Nay, guiltiness will speak//Though tongues were out of use |
| Act 5 Scene 1- Iago continues to suggest that Bianca is responsible for Cassio’s death | This is the fruit of whoring |
| Act 5 Scene 1- Emilia supports her husband who is suggesting that Bianca is responsible for Cassio’s injuries | O, fie upon thee, strumpet |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello’s soliloquy he struggles between allowing the soldier within him to bring justice or the husband within him to protect and love his wife | Yet I’ll not shed her blood//Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow//And smooth as monumental alabast |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello believes that this act is necessary to bring justice | Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello turns off the light as he goes to murder his wife | Put out the light, and then put out the light |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello believes this murder is necessary to restore Desdemona’s previous purity | If I quench thee, thou flaming minister//I can again thy former light restore |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello knows the severity of this murder | When I have plucked thy rose//I cannot give it vital growth again//It needs must wither |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello takes justice into his own hands | O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade//Justice to break her sword |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello reveals that even after this murder he will continue to love his wife | I will kill thee//and love thee after |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello cannot stop loving his wife | One more, one more…one more, and this the last//So sweet was n’eer so fatal |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello reveals the difficulty of this murder as he truly loves his wife | It strikes where it doth love |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello suggests that Desdemona must prayer, he think he is being fair to allow her this oppurtunity | I would not kill thy unprepared spirit |
| Act 5 Scene 2- For the first time Desdemona is fearful of her husband | And yet I fear you: for you’re fatal then//When you’re eyes roll so |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello suggests that Desdemona’s denial is making his actions seem unjustified | ‘Thou dost stone my heart//And make’st me call what I intend to do..A murder, which I though a sacrifice |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Desdemona gives Othello the opportunity to hear the truth which he denies | Send him hither//Let him confess a truth |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello states that Cassio has confessed | He hath confessed |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello reveals that he has sought revenge on Cassio | Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge//Had stomachs for them all |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello defends his values as a soldier | I, that am cruel, am yet merciful;//I would not have thee linger in thy pain |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello is faced with confusion and misery after he has murdered his wife | My wife! My wife! What wife? I have no wife |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello suggests that people who murder are crazy | It is the very error of the moon//She comes more neared earth than sh was wont//And makes men mad |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello seeks revenge on Cassio as he is aware that Iago hasn’t murdered him | Then murder’s out of tune//And sweet revenge grows harsh |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Desdemona dies an innocent victim | A guiltless death I die |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Desdemona remains loyal to Othello until the end of her life | Nobody- I myself-farewell//Commend me to my kind lord- O farewell |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello tells Emilia that he believes Desdemona is a liar | She’s like a liar gone to burning hell//’Twas I that killed her |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia continues to defend Desdemona’s innocence | O, the more angel she//And you the blacker devil |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia defends Desdemona and calls Othello evil | thou art a devil |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello suggests that Desdemona was not loyal | she was false as water |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia suggests that Othello’s rash behaviour led him to believe that his wife was not loyal | Thou art rash as fire to say//That she was false. O , she was heavenly true! |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello makes an error of judgement once again and suggests that Iago is honest | An honest man he is, and hates the slime//That sticks on filthy deeds |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia cannot believe that her husband is responsible | My husband…my husband…my husband |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia suggests that villainy has destroyed this love | villainy hath made mocks with love! |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello defends Iago when Emilia is accusing him of villainy | My friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia wishes severe punishment on her husband | may his pernicious soul//Rot half a grain a day |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia suggests that Othello will go to hell for this act | This deed of thine is no more worthy of heaven//That thou was worthy of her |
| Act 5 Scene 2- There’s a transformation in Emilia who begins to defend herself | Thou hast not half that power to do me harm//As I have to be hurt…As ignorant as dirt |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia hopefully suggests that Othello is blaming Iago | You have done well//That men must lay their murders on your neck |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Once again Emilia hopes that Iago is not responsible | I know thou did’st not: thou’rt not such a villain//Speak for my heart is full |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia identifies the cruel act of her husband | You told a lie, an odious damned lie// Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia is not longer subdued to her husband | I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia ultimately identifies Iago as the villain | Villainy, villainy, villainy! I think upon’t, I think- I smell’t- O villainy! |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia suggests that he can no longer obey her husband | let me have leave to speak//’Tis proper I obey him, but not now |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Emilia continues to abuse Othello | Nay, lay thee down and roar,//For thou hast killed the sweetest innocent// That e’er did lift up eye |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Gratiano suggests that this relationship resulted in the death of Branbantio | Thy match was mortal to him |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Iago abuses his wife and then murders her | Villainous *****!…Filth, thou liest…[Iago stabs Emilia from behind and exit] |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello identifies that honesty is better than honour | But why should honour outlive honesty? |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello is aware that he will be eternally punished for his actions- religiously | This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven//And fiends will snatch at it…Roast me in sulphur |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello suggests that he can’t kill Iago because he maybe the devil | If that thou be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello allows Iago to live as he believes he will suffer more in life | I’d have thee live//For in my sense ’tis happiness to die |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Lodovico highlights Othello’s downfall from nobility | O, thou Othello, that was once so good//Fallen in the practice of a damned slave |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello suggests that his fatal flaw was his obsession with honour | For nought did I in hate, but all in honour |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello demands answers from Iago | I pray, demand that demi-devil//Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body |
| Act 5 Scene 2- In an attempt to regain power, Iago refuses to speak at the end of the play | Demand me nothing; what you know, you know//From this time forth I never will speak word |
| Act 5 Scene 2- In his final speech he remain self-assured and proud of his work with the state | I have done the state some service and they know’t |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello remains focused on his reputation | When you shall these unlucky deed relate//Speak of me as I am |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello identifies his fatal flaw as overwhelming love for Desdemona | Of one that loved not wisely, but too well |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello identifies his fatal flaw being too impressionable | Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought//Perplexed in the extreme |
| Act 5 Scene 2- As Othello commits suicide there’s a sense that the conflict between the soldier and husband within him dies as the soldier kills the husband to bring justice | I took by the throat the circumsised dog//And smote him thus |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Othello ultimately loves his wife | Killing myself, to die upon a kiss |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Cassio reveals Othello greatness of soul | For he was great of heart |
| Act 5 Scene 2- Lodovico marks the end of this tragedy | Look on the tragic loading of this bed…Myself will straight aboard, and to the state//This heavy act with heavy heart relate |
| Act 1 Scene 2- Although Othello loves his wife he will not give up his freedom as a soldier to marry her | I would not my unhoused free condition//Put into circumscription and confine//For the seas’s worth |
| Act 1 Scene 3- The first senator reveals the rational analysis of the state which contrasts that of Othello late on in the play | This cannot be//By no assay of reason//’Tis pageant To keep us false in gaze |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello suggests he must get rid of all his love for Desdemona but he still regard it highly as he sends it to heaven | All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven |
| Act 3 Scene 3 – Othello declares himself to Iago illustrating his loss of power, Othello’s kneeling mirrors that of Desdemona later in the play | In the due reverend of a sacred vow//I here engage my words [he kneels] |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Iago commands that Othello remains kneeling and he joins Othello illustrating Iago’s growing power | Do not rise yet [he kneels] |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Iago declares himself to Othello and the two rise together illustrating their union in the second half of the palay | Let him command,//And to obey shall be in me remorse//What bloody business ever [they rise] |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Othello’s previous respect and worshiping of his wife has gone | Damned he, lewd minx! O, damn her, damn her |
| Act 3 Scene 3- Iago succeeds in achieving lieutenancy | Now art thou my Lieutenant |
| Act 3 Scene 4- Othello asks for Desdemona’s hand as he attempts for interrogate her, this mirrors palm reading which reflects Othello’s pagan ancestry showing that he is distancing himself from the christian traditions he has adopted | Give me your hand. This hand is moist, my lady |
| Act 3 Scene 4 – Othello discusses the ancestry of the Hankerchief | That hankerchief//Did an Egyptian to my mother give:She was a charmer and could almost read the thoughts of people |
| Act 4 Scene 2- Othello suggests that heaven’s worst punishment is affecting his reputation | But alas, to make me//A fixed figure for the time of scorn//To point this slow unmoving finger at |
Tragedy- Othello quotes
August 28, 2019