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| Question | Answer |
| "mere prattle without practice / is all his soldiership" | > criticising Othello's judgement before we meet him, manipulating audience > criticising Cassio's skills > professional jealousy |
| "I follow him to serve my turn upon him" | > bitter, wants revenge > only does things for himself |
| "I am not what I am" | > sets out to deceive people, appearances can be deceptive, foreshadowing > open blasphemy |
| "I hate him as I do hell's pains" | > openly declaring hatred for Othello |
| "it is merely lust of the blood and permission of the will" | believes true love doesn't exist |
| "it is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets / He's done my office" | > thinks Othello's slept with his wife > motive??? |
| "Hell and night / Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light" | draws the audience in and proclaims he has a plan dark and sinister |
| "With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great as fly as Cassio" | > he plans to capture Cassio and bring him down as well as Othello |
| "put the Moor / At least into a jealousy so strong / That judgement cannot cure" | > wants Othello to be overwhelmed / consumed with jealousy |
| "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving" | > shows his negative attitude to reputation > hidden criticism of Cassio, professional jealousy |
| "When devils will the blackest sins put on, / They do suggest at first with heavenly shows / As I do now" | > appearances are deceptive > plans to be evil, the devil but appear good and honest |
| "I'll pour this pestilence in his ear" | he is going to use his words as poison to Othello |
| "It is the green eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on" | refers to jealousy, warning Othello that it consumes you |
| "were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / As salt as wolves in pride" | uses sexual animal imagery to lie about Desdemona and Cassio to Othello and stimulate a reaction |
| "bear your fortune like a man!" "be a man" "nothing of a man" | continually saying that Othello isn't behaving like a man show's Othello's vulnerability and Iago's power, control and confidence as he does not react |
| "he hath a daily beauty in his life / That makes me ugly" | > feels inferior to Cassio > shows JEALOUSY > hates all things good, honest, pure |
| "From this time forth I never will speak word" | manages to torment Othello further by withholding information/ explanation |
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