Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Othello: Key Quotes
- On Racism
- He's called "the Moor"
- "For I am black/ & have not those soft
parts of conversation
- Final speech: "Indian",
"Arabian", "Aleppo", "Turk",
"Venetian"
- "Rude am I in my speech and little
blest with the soft phrase of peace"
- On Love, Sorrow, & Death
- "Must you speak of one loved not
wisely but too well" (5.2)
- "Of one whose subdued eyes, albeit unused to
the melting mood, drop tears as fast as the
Arabian trees drop their medicinal gum" (5.2)
- "Put out the light and then put out the light"
- On being a Soldier & Morals
- "Tis the plague of great ones"
- "... I must be found./ My parts, my
title, and my perfect soul/ shall
manifest in me rightly" (1.2)
- "I must be found"= integrity
- On Desdemona
- "I had rather be a toad/ and live upon the
vapour of a dungeon/ than keep a corner n the
thing I love" (3.3)
- O compares D to a "Cistern for foul
toads/ To knot and gender in"; she is
as honest as "summer flies are in the
shambles [slaughterhouse]"
- He "Threw a pearl away"
- "If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself"
- "I'll tear her all to pieces"
- On Mistrust
- "My ancient [Iago];/ A man of honesty & trust" (1.3)
- "I am bound to thee [Iago] forever"