Othello quotes: Othello

Question	Answer
"I know Iago Thy honest and love doth mince this matter"	act2 Scene3: Reveals Othello's blindspot where Iago is concerned,sets the stage for how Othello's belief in Iago's integrity and honest will lead to disaster
"I saw't not, thought it not, it harmed me not"	Act3, scene 3: Rages about the torment that he is experiencing now that he is suspicious about his wife's fidelity. Now that Iago has awakened the jealousy within him, it is all he thinks about
" yet she must die, else she'll betray more men"	Act5,scene2: Trying to justify her death, believe is he is doing a service by doing so. shows his madness and his sexual jealousy towards Desdemona
"haply for i am black, and have not those soft parts of conversation"	Act 3, scene 3: First time that Othello calls negative attention to his race. He himself believes that he is not articulate or is lesser because of his skin colour.
"when i love thee not, chaos is come again"	Act 3 Scene 3: If he stops loving her, the entire universe stops making sense to him an everything is reduced to chaos --> foreshadowing
must you speak of one that loved, not too wisely, but too well	Act 5 scene 2: He specifies that he sees his downfall as his passion for Desdemona. As it ultimately made him succumb to jealousy
"rude am i in my speech"	Act1 scene 3: is aware that he is inarticulate

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	Created by Seyi Ogunbusola over 5 years ago