ACT 1 KEY QUOTATIONS (1)
class english literature
topic othello
QUOTE LIST
QUOTE CHARACTER THEMES
“I am not what I am” IAGO deception irony
“Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!” IAGO gender
“An old black ram is tupping your white ewe” IAGO love race
“I follow him to serve my turn upon him” IAGO deception power
"It is merely a lust of the body and permission of the
IAGO love
will."
"But for my profit and sport" IAGO deception power
"abuse Othello's ear" IAGO deception power
"Hell and night / Must bring this monstrous birth to
IAGO deception
the world's light"
"tenderly led by the nose / As asses are." IAGO deception power
"I am hither to your daughter. But here's my
DESDEMONA gender love
husband."
“Let me go with him” DESDEMONA love power
“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust honesty power
OTHELLO
them” race
“For know, Iago, But that I love the gentle gender honesty
OTHELLO
Desdemona” love
ACT 1 KEY QUOTATIONS (1) 1
class english literature
topic othello
QUOTE LIST
QUOTE CHARACTER THEMES
“I am not what I am” IAGO deception irony
“Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!” IAGO gender
“An old black ram is tupping your white ewe” IAGO love race
“I follow him to serve my turn upon him” IAGO deception power
"It is merely a lust of the body and permission of the
IAGO love
will."
"But for my profit and sport" IAGO deception power
"abuse Othello's ear" IAGO deception power
"Hell and night / Must bring this monstrous birth to
IAGO deception
the world's light"
"tenderly led by the nose / As asses are." IAGO deception power
"I am hither to your daughter. But here's my
DESDEMONA gender love
husband."
“Let me go with him” DESDEMONA love power
“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust honesty power
OTHELLO
them” race
“For know, Iago, But that I love the gentle gender honesty
OTHELLO
Desdemona” love
ACT 1 KEY QUOTATIONS (1) 1
