Innis Othello test 1
Terms
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- tragedy
- series of actions leads to downfall of main character
- tragic hero
- main character of tragedy; audience pities them
- soliloquy
- long speech given by a character while alone on stage to reveal his/her private thoughts/intentions
- aside
- character's quiet remark to the audience or character that no once else on stage is supposed to hear
- dramatic irony
- when audience/reader knows something that one or more characters don't
- wretch
- miserable person
- beseech
- beg, plead
- abused
- deceived, violated
- gentle
- noble (title of respect)
- credit
- reputation
- gall
- bitterness
- fortitude
- strength
- prithee
- pray, please
- honest
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1. chaste
2. socially inferior - cuckold
- man whose wife is unfaithful
- "a great arithmetician,...a Florentine,/...That never set a squadron in the field,/Not the division of the battle knows/More than a spinster-- unless the bookish theoric..."
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Iago to Roderigo
street at night - "But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve/For daws to peck at. I am not what I am."
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Iago to Roderigo
street at night - "You have lost half your soul./Even now, now, very now, an old black ram/Is tupping your white ewe."
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Iago to Brabantio
when Brab in balcony/house and Iago below at night - "...O treason of blood! Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds/By what you see them act"
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Brabantio to Roderigo
when looking through Brab's house for Desdemona w/ torches at night - "But I pray you sir,/Are you fast married?"
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Iago to Othello
outside or in room with torches at night - "I fetch my life and being/From men of royal siege, and my demerits/May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune/As this that I have reached."
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Othello to Iago
room/outside w/ torches at night - "But that I love the gentle Desdemona,/I would not my unhoused free condition/Put into circumscription and confine/ for the sea's worth."
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Othello to Iago
room/outside w/ torches at night - "Not I. I must be found./My parts, my title, and my perfect soul/Shall manifest me rightly."
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Othello to Iago
room/outside w/ torches at night - "That thou has practiced on her with foul charms,/Abused her delicate youth with drugs or miracles"
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Brabantio to Othello
at night while swordfighting - "Valient Othello, we must straight employ you/Against the general enemy Ottoman."
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Duke to Othello
in courtroom/senate - "She is abused, stol'n from me and corrupted/By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks."
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Brabantio to Duke/council
in courtroom/senate - "If you do find me foul in her report./the trust, the office I do hold of you/Not only taken away, but let your sentence/Even fall upon my life."
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Othello to Duke/council
in courtroom/senate - "These things to hear/Would Desdemona seriously incline.../She loved me for the dangers I had passed,/And I loved her that she did pity them."
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Othello to Duke/council
in courtoom/senate - "Come hither, gentle mistress./Do you perceive in all this noble company/Where most you owe obedience?"
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Brabantio says to Desdemona
in courtroom/senate - "But here's my husband,/And so much duty as my mother showed/ To you, preffering you before her father,/ So much I challenge that I may profess/Due to the Moor my lord."
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Desdemona says to Brabantio/council
in courtroom/senate - "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief;/He robs himself that spends a bootless grief."
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Duke says to Brabantio
in courtroom/council - "A man he is of honesty and trust./To his conveyance I assign my wife."
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Othello to Duke
in courtroom/council - "Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see./She has deceived her father, and may thee."
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Brabantio to Othello
in courtroom/council - "I hate the Moor;/And it is thought abroad that twixt my sheets/He's done my office. I know not if't be true..."
- Iago in soliloquy
- "The Moor is of a free and open nature,/That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,/And will as tenderly be led by the nose/As asses are."
- Iago in soliloquy