Summary KNOWLEDGE PACKS FOR A-LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE B (OTHELLO)

OTHELLO QUOTES:

‘I know my price, I am worth no worse a place’- Act 1, scene 1.
‘Whether I in any just term am affined to love the Moor.’- Act 1, scene 1.
‘I follow him to serve my turn upon him. We cannot all be masters, nor all master’s cannot be
truly followed.’- Act 1, scene 1.
‘Trimmed in forms and visages of duty’- Act 1, scene 1.
‘In following him I follow but myself.’- Act 1, scene 1.
‘I am not what I am.’- Act 1, scene 1.
‘Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.’- Act 1, scene 1.
‘Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.’- Act 1, scene 1.
‘In an extravagant and wheeling stranger of here and everywhere.’- Act 1, scene 1.
‘Are you fast married?’- Act 1, scene 2.
‘My parts, my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly.’- Act 1, scene 2.
‘By Janus, I think no.’-Act 1, scene 2.
‘You shall more command with years than with your weapons.’- Act 1, scene 2.
‘Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals.’- Act 1, scene 2.
‘I won his daughter.’- Act 1, scene 3.
‘That with some mixtures powerful.’ - Act 1, scene 3.
‘How did I thrive in this fair lady’s actual love?’ - Act 1, scene 3.
‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them’- Act 1,
scene 3.
‘I think this tale would win my daughter too.’ - Act 1, scene 3.
‘And his honours and his valiant parts.’ - Act 1, scene 3.
‘Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.’ - Act 1, scene 3.
‘She has deceived her father, and may thee’- Act 1, scene 3.
‘My life upon her faith.’ - Act 1, scene 3.
‘Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light.’ - Act 1, scene 3.
‘She’ll find a white that shall her blackness fit.’- Act 2, scene 1.

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,‘O my fair warrior.’ - Act 2, scene 1.
‘I cannot speak enough of this content.’ - Act 2, scene 1.
‘Her eye must be fed, and what delight shall she have to look on the devil?’ - Act 2, scene 1.
‘If she had been blest, she would never have loved the Moor.’ - Act 2, scene 1.
‘Till I am evened with him, wife for wife.’ - Act 2, scene 1.
‘I’ll have our Michael Cassio on the hip, abuse him to the Moor.’- Act 2, scene 1.
‘Iago is most honest.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘She’s a most fresh and delicate creature.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘I am unfortunate in the infirmity and dare not task my weakness with any more.’ - Act 2,
scene 3.
‘I fear the trust Othello puts in him.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘Perhaps he sees it not, or his good nature prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio.’ - Act 2,
scene 3.
‘Are we turned Turks?’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘Honest Iago.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘In terms like bride and groom divesting them for bed.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘Unlace your reputation.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘Never more be officer of mine.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘A punishment more in policy than in malice.’- Act 2, scene 3.
‘Had I as many mouths as Hydra.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘She’s framed as fruitful.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘Even as her appetite shall play the God.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘Devils will the blackest sins put on.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear.’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘Will I turn her virtue into pitch’ - Act 2, scene 3.
‘As if there were some monster in thy thought too hideous to be shown.’ – Act 3, scene 3.
‘Men should be what they seem.’ – Act 3, scene 3.
‘Nor for my manhood, honesty and wisdom to let you know my thoughts,’ – Act 3, scene 3.


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, ‘O beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it
feeds on’– Act 3, scene 3.
‘For she had eyes and chose me.’ – Act 3, scene 3.
‘Look to your wife, observe her well with Cassio.’ – Act 3, scene 3.
‘She did deceive her father, marrying you.’ – Act 3, scene 3.
‘The moor already changes with my poison.’ – Act 3, scene 3.
‘Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep which thou owedst yesterday.’ – Act 3, scene 3.
‘Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content!’ – Act 3, scene 3.
‘Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore.’ – Act 3, scene 3.
‘I think the sun where he was born drew all such humours from him.’ – Act 3, scene 4.
‘They are all stomachs and we are all but food: they eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
they belch us.’ – Act 3, scene 4.
‘We must think men are not Gods.’ – Act 3, scene 4.
‘There’s many a beast then in a populous city, and many a civil monster.’ – Act 3, scene 4.
‘Work on, my medicine work!’-– Act 4, scene 1.
‘Do not weep, do not weep!’ – Act 4, scene 2.
‘By heaven that should be my handkerchief.’ – Act 4, scene 1.
‘Lay on my bed my wedding sheets.’ – Act 4, scene 2.
‘Let husbands know, their wives have sense like them.’ – Act 4, scene 3.
‘If Cassio do remain, he hath a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly.’ – Act 5, scene 1.
‘Oh, brave Iago, honest and just that hast such a noble sense of thy friend’s wrong! Though
teachest me.’ – Act 5, scene 1.
‘A very valiant fellow.’ – Act 5, scene 1.
‘Oh, banish me my lord but kill me not’-– Act 5, scene 2.
‘An honourable murderer if you will.’ – Act 5, scene 2.
‘Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this day forth I never will speak a
word.’ – Act 5, scene 2.




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