OTHELLO
"the Beast with two backs" "Barbary horse"
"Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them" "Let him do his spite"
"parts… title, and… perfect soul" will "manifest me rightly" "foul thief"
"I love the gentle Desdemona" "valiant" "an erring barbarian"
Desdemona "loved me for the dangers I had passed/ And I loved her that she did pity them"
"She gave me for my pains a world of sighs"
"warlike Moor" Montano "constant, loving, noble nature" Iago, "fair warrior", gives Othello
"wonder great as my content/ To see you here before me"; Desdemona is his "soul's joy"
"I fear/ My soul hath her content so absolute/ That not another comfort like to this/
Succeeds in unknown fate"
"I'll make thee an example" "My blood begins my safer guides to rule" "never more be
officer of mine"
"She had eyes and she chose me" "Show me thy thought" → "By heaven, I'll know thy
thoughts!"
"If more thou dost perceive, let me know more"
"What sense had I of her stolen hours of lust?/ I saw't not, thought it not" "I am bound to
thee forever"
"Perdition catch my soul!/ But I do love thee! and when I love thee not/ Chaos is come
again"
"No: to be once in doubt/ Is once to be resolved" "She's gone, I am abused" "black…
declined/ Into the vale of years" ""I think my wife be honest, and think she is not" "I'll tear
her all to pieces!"
"magic in the web" "Give me your hand. This hand is moist, my lady."
"Woe upon thy life!" to Iago. "The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven"
"Look how he laughs already!" pathetic bystander
Worried that Desdemona's "body and beauty" will "unprovide my mind again"
"Fire and brimstone!"/"Goats and monkeys!"
"The fountain" of his pure love has become polluted, becoming "a cistern, for foul toads/ To
knot and gender in"
"I cry you mercy then,/ I took you for that cunning whore of Venice/That married with
Othello"
"Strumpet, I come" typically villain speech
He is fulfilling Desdemona's "unblest fate"
"Put out the light, and then put out the light" "Honourable murderer" "Whip me, ye devils"
He has done nothing "in hate, but all in honour"
"One that loved not wisely, but too well"
"I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this,/ Killing myself, to die upon this"
"But why should honour outlive honesty?" "Who can control his fate?" "Where should
Othello go?" "O Desdemon! dead, Desdemon. Dead! O, O!"
"ill-starred wench"
"the Beast with two backs" "Barbary horse"
"Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them" "Let him do his spite"
"parts… title, and… perfect soul" will "manifest me rightly" "foul thief"
"I love the gentle Desdemona" "valiant" "an erring barbarian"
Desdemona "loved me for the dangers I had passed/ And I loved her that she did pity them"
"She gave me for my pains a world of sighs"
"warlike Moor" Montano "constant, loving, noble nature" Iago, "fair warrior", gives Othello
"wonder great as my content/ To see you here before me"; Desdemona is his "soul's joy"
"I fear/ My soul hath her content so absolute/ That not another comfort like to this/
Succeeds in unknown fate"
"I'll make thee an example" "My blood begins my safer guides to rule" "never more be
officer of mine"
"She had eyes and she chose me" "Show me thy thought" → "By heaven, I'll know thy
thoughts!"
"If more thou dost perceive, let me know more"
"What sense had I of her stolen hours of lust?/ I saw't not, thought it not" "I am bound to
thee forever"
"Perdition catch my soul!/ But I do love thee! and when I love thee not/ Chaos is come
again"
"No: to be once in doubt/ Is once to be resolved" "She's gone, I am abused" "black…
declined/ Into the vale of years" ""I think my wife be honest, and think she is not" "I'll tear
her all to pieces!"
"magic in the web" "Give me your hand. This hand is moist, my lady."
"Woe upon thy life!" to Iago. "The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven"
"Look how he laughs already!" pathetic bystander
Worried that Desdemona's "body and beauty" will "unprovide my mind again"
"Fire and brimstone!"/"Goats and monkeys!"
"The fountain" of his pure love has become polluted, becoming "a cistern, for foul toads/ To
knot and gender in"
"I cry you mercy then,/ I took you for that cunning whore of Venice/That married with
Othello"
"Strumpet, I come" typically villain speech
He is fulfilling Desdemona's "unblest fate"
"Put out the light, and then put out the light" "Honourable murderer" "Whip me, ye devils"
He has done nothing "in hate, but all in honour"
"One that loved not wisely, but too well"
"I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this,/ Killing myself, to die upon this"
"But why should honour outlive honesty?" "Who can control his fate?" "Where should
Othello go?" "O Desdemon! dead, Desdemon. Dead! O, O!"
"ill-starred wench"
