Othello: Key Quotes

Othello: Key Quotes

On Racism
1. He's called "the Moor"
2. "For I am black/ & have not those soft parts of conversation
3. Final speech: "Indian", "Arabian", "Aleppo", "Turk", "Venetian"
4. "Rude am I in my speech and little blest with the soft phrase of peace"
On Love, Sorrow, & Death
1. "Must you speak of one loved not wisely but too well" (5.2)
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)
3. "Put out the light and then put out the light"
On being a Soldier & Morals
1. "Tis the plague of great ones"
2. "... I must be found./ My parts, my title, and my perfect soul/ shall manifest in me rightly" (1.2)
  1. "I must be found"= integrity
On Desdemona
1. "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)
2. 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]"
3. He "Threw a pearl away"
4. "If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself"
5. "I'll tear her all to pieces"
On Mistrust
1. "My ancient [Iago];/ A man of honesty & trust" (1.3)
2. "I am bound to thee [Iago] forever"

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