Counter-misogyny by Character
Iago
“Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.”
“It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.”
“Come, be a man.”
“If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way than drowning.”
“Desdemona is directly in love with him.”
“Our general’s wife is now the general”
Othello
“I love the gentle Desdemona”
Othello asks for desdemona to testify for herself (autonomy)
“O my fair warrior!”
“I had been happy, if the general camp, Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body, So I had
nothing known”
“Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore, Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof”
Cassio
“our great captain’s captain”
“Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio, He’s never any thing but your true servant.”
Roderigo
Brabantio
Desdemona
“My downright violence and storm of fortunes May trumpet to the world. My heart’s subdued”
“O, fie upon thee, slanderer!”
“I have not deserved this”
“When I have spoke of you dispraisingly”
“stood within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech!”
“O, these men, these men!”
Emilia
“They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; To eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They
belch us.”
“Men’s natures wrangle with inferior things, Though great ones are their object.”
“we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observances As fit the bridal”
“If any wretch have put this in your head, Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse”
“Nor I neither by this heavenly light; I might do’t as well i’ the dark.”
“But I do think it is their husbands' faults If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties”
“pour our treasures into foreign laps”
“though we have some grace, Yet have we some revenge.”
Iago
“Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.”
“It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.”
“Come, be a man.”
“If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way than drowning.”
“Desdemona is directly in love with him.”
“Our general’s wife is now the general”
Othello
“I love the gentle Desdemona”
Othello asks for desdemona to testify for herself (autonomy)
“O my fair warrior!”
“I had been happy, if the general camp, Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body, So I had
nothing known”
“Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore, Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof”
Cassio
“our great captain’s captain”
“Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio, He’s never any thing but your true servant.”
Roderigo
Brabantio
Desdemona
“My downright violence and storm of fortunes May trumpet to the world. My heart’s subdued”
“O, fie upon thee, slanderer!”
“I have not deserved this”
“When I have spoke of you dispraisingly”
“stood within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech!”
“O, these men, these men!”
Emilia
“They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; To eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They
belch us.”
“Men’s natures wrangle with inferior things, Though great ones are their object.”
“we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observances As fit the bridal”
“If any wretch have put this in your head, Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse”
“Nor I neither by this heavenly light; I might do’t as well i’ the dark.”
“But I do think it is their husbands' faults If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties”
“pour our treasures into foreign laps”
“though we have some grace, Yet have we some revenge.”
