OTHELLO LOVE QUOTES

OTHELLO LOVE QUOTES "For she had eyes and chose me." - ANS-Othello to Iago, Act 3, Scene 3 - believes Desdemona is faithful before Iago's manipulation as she saw and chose him despite his race - how quickly Iago changes Othello's mind - Bradley. "She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them" - ANS-Othello to the Duke, Act 1, Scene 3 - how he and Desdemona fell in love - is this actual love or hero worship? "Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again." - ANS-Othello, Act 3, Scene 3 - just before Iago's manipulation begins - when he stops loving Desdemona, the world will become chaotic and destructive. "I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss." - ANS-Othello, Act 5, Scene 2 - kisses Desdemona as he dies - suggests he did love her and their relationship wasn't just hero worship/flattery/lust. "(...)Of one that loved not wisely but too well" - ANS-Othello, Act 5, Scene 2 - Othello claims his jealousy and violence occurred because he loved Desdemona too much. "She gave me for my pains a world of sighs." - ANS-Othello to the Duke, Act 1, Scene 3 - could be argued that Othello mistook flattery from Desdemona for love. "(...)Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe" - ANS-Othello, Act 5, Scene 2 - racism and objectification of women - describing himself as a lower human who threw away a small, pretty object. "I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs." - ANS-Iago to Brabantio, Act 1, Scene 1 - Iago's references to love are often sexual. Animalistic imagery to describe Othello due to racism. "(...)So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord." - ANS-Desdemona to Brabantio, Act 1, Scene 3 - Desdemona chooses her husband over her father - patriarchal society. "(...)To you I am bound for life and education." - ANS-Desdemona to Brabantio, Act 1, Scene 3 - familial love - Desdemona loves and respects her father for her life and education, but she now owes her obedience to her husband, Othello - patriarchal society. "(...)and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse" - ANS-Othello to the Duke, Act 1, Scene 3 - describing how he won Desdemona - suggests her love for Othello is hero-worship as she finds his stories exciting. "(...)That heaven had made her such a man:(...)I should but teach him how to tell my story. And that would woo her." - ANS-Othello to the Duke, Act 1, Scene 3 - Desdemona was quite forward with Othello for a woman in the Elizabethan era. Maybe this is why it's easy for Iago to convince Othello that she's being unfaithful in Act 3, Scene 3. "Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee." - ANS-Brabantio to Othello, Act 1, Scene 3 - Desdemona deceived Brabantio and violently threw away her old life to be with Othello, which could again be why it's easy for Othello to believe that she's being unfaithful in Act 3, Scene 3. "She's gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her." - ANS-Othello, Act 3, Scene 3 - Othello changes his mind a lot very quickly in this scene - he goes from not believing Desdemona is unfaithful, to believing she is, to not believing it again, and Iago didn't have to do much at all to trigger this - Leavis. "(...)this forked plague" - ANS-Othello, Act 3, Scene 3 - Cuckold - described as a deadly, widespread disease. "I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume." - ANS-Othello, Act 5, Scene 2 - Othello's soliloquy just before he kills Desdemona - he can relight a candle if he changes his mind, but when he kills Desdemona, he doesn't know the black magic that can bring her back - contrasts to Brabantio's accusations in Act 1. Alternatively, this could be about Desdemona's virginity as it's never clear if they are able to consummate their marriage - once he takes her virginity, she is no longer pure and it can't be replaced. "It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will." - ANS-Iago to Roderigo, Act 1, Scene 3 - Iago's belief that love is nothing more than lust. "(...)If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy" - ANS-Othello to Desdemona, Act 2, Scene 1 - one of the few times the audience see Othello and Desdemona happy - evidence of the argument that they were truly in love. "(...)I nothing, but to please his fantasy." - ANS-Emilia, Act 3, Scene 3 - her belief that her only purpose is to please Iago - patriarchal society. "(...)No, Iago; I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; And on the proof, there is no more but this,-- Away at once with love or jealousy!" - ANS-Othello to Iago, Act 3, Scene 3 - Othello claims he won't believe Desdemona's unfaithful and get jealous until he sees proof - but this actually happens before Iago has the chance to show him any 'proof' - Leavis. "He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't and he's not robb'd at all." - ANS-Othello to Iago, Act 3, Scene 3 - ignorance is bliss - Othello was happy before he heard of Desdemona's 'unfaithfulness', as he wasn't aware of it, but now the uncertainty is torturing him. "(...)O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair, and smell'st so sweet," - ANS-Othello to Desdemona, Act 4, Scene 2 - Desdemona is a weed pretending to be a flower (an unfaithful woman pretending to be innocent and pure) - as Iago's manipulation takes hold, Othello begins to speak similarly to him with plant and animal metaphors. "'Tis not a year or two shows us a man. They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us." - ANS-Emilia to Desdemona, Act 3, Scene 4 - Emilia's view on men - they use their wives until they're sick of them, and then discard them. "No, my heart is turn'd to stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand." - ANS-Othello to Iago, Act 4, Scene 1 - Othello when he decides to kill Desdemona - trying to force love out of his heart. "Do it not with poison. Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated." - ANS-Iago to Othello, Act 4, Scene 1 - Iago telling Othello to kill Desdemona in their marital bed that she 'contaminated' - the audience can see this as more control/manipulation by Iago - Leavis. "(...)She had a song of 'Willow',/An old thing 'twas, but it expressed her fortune/And she died singing it. That song tonight/Will not go from my mind." - ANS-Desdemona to Emilia, Act 4, Scene 3 - maternal scene between Emilia and Desdemona as Emilia prepares Desdemona for bed. Desdemona seems aware of her fate, as she is reminded of a song of a man who betrayed his lover, which her mother's maid died singing. Emilia later dies next to Desdemona singing the same song. "Nobody. I myself. Farewell./Commend me to my kind lord." - ANS-Desdemona to Emilia, Act 5, Scene 2 - in her last words before she dies, Desdemona forgives Othello and calls her death a suicide, even though she knows she's innocent - evidence that she truly loves Othello. "O ill-starred wench!" - ANS-Othello, Act 5, Scene 2 - alludes to fate - suggests Othello is trying to blame fate for what happened instead of his own