Othello Themes – Gender Roles and Love
Quotes:
"Oh heavy ignorance! Thou praisest the worst best."
Act 2 Scene 1 Desdemona (Speaker) , Iago
"Her honor is an essence that's not seen; They have it very oft that have it not."
Act 4 Scene 1 Iago (Speaker) , Desdemona - PG 98 - Lines 15
"A horned man's a monster and a beast."
Act 4 Scene 1 Othello (Speaker) - PG 100 - Lines 63
Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I
can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, … I
know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume."
Act 5 Scene 2 Othello (Speaker) , Desdemona - PG 121 - Lines 10
“Is this man not jealous… They are all but stomachs and we all but food: they eat us
hungerly and when they are full they belch us.”
Act 3 Scene 4 - PG 94 - Lines 100
“They are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they’re jealous. It is a
monster begot of itself, born of itself.”
Act 3 Scene 4 - PG 96 - Lines 154
“I durst, my Lord, she is honest…”
Act 4 Scene 2 - PG 106 - Lines 12
“Let husbands know their wives have sense like them: they see and smell and have
palates both for sweet and sour as husbands have…”
Act 4 Scene 3 - PG 116 - Lines 95
Quotes:
"Oh heavy ignorance! Thou praisest the worst best."
Act 2 Scene 1 Desdemona (Speaker) , Iago
"Her honor is an essence that's not seen; They have it very oft that have it not."
Act 4 Scene 1 Iago (Speaker) , Desdemona - PG 98 - Lines 15
"A horned man's a monster and a beast."
Act 4 Scene 1 Othello (Speaker) - PG 100 - Lines 63
Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I
can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, … I
know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume."
Act 5 Scene 2 Othello (Speaker) , Desdemona - PG 121 - Lines 10
“Is this man not jealous… They are all but stomachs and we all but food: they eat us
hungerly and when they are full they belch us.”
Act 3 Scene 4 - PG 94 - Lines 100
“They are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they’re jealous. It is a
monster begot of itself, born of itself.”
Act 3 Scene 4 - PG 96 - Lines 154
“I durst, my Lord, she is honest…”
Act 4 Scene 2 - PG 106 - Lines 12
“Let husbands know their wives have sense like them: they see and smell and have
palates both for sweet and sour as husbands have…”
Act 4 Scene 3 - PG 116 - Lines 95
