A2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
PRE 1800 LITERATURE
OTHELLO – QUOTATIONS
Find a quotation from the play to illustrate key characters of the play.
FEATURE
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QUOTATION
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COMMENT
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REF
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Empowered Desdemona
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Othello’s pride
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Iago’s insider knowledge
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Emilia’s pragmatic and worldly view
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Gullible Rodrigo
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Find a quotation from the play to support these views of character’s in the play.
CRITIC
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CRITIC’S QUOTATION
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QUOTATION / COMMENT
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Estelle Taylor
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“The ironic equation is that all the character mistake illusion for reality.”
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Ben Okri
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“Othello didn’t begin as a play about race, history has made it one.”
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Peter Sellars
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“People abandon their whole belief system – Othello does this because of his pride.”
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“the motive hunting of motiveless malignity – Iago is without a cause, but consumed by hate.”
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A.C. Bradley
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“evil has nowhere else been portrayed with such mastery as in the evil character of Iago.”
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Find a quotation to present a key theme in the play.
FEATURE
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QUOTATION
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COMMENT
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REF
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Jealousy
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Appearance and reality
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Civilisation and barbarism
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Private and public
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Isolation
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Find contextual and other comments to make about the quotations listed below
QUOTATION
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CONTEXTUAL COMMENT
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OTHER *COMMENT
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“O, I have lost my reputation”
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“tis proper I obey him, but not now. Perchance, Iago I will ne’er go home.”
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“Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her!”
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“You have told me she has received them , and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden respect and acquaintance”
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“I am no strumpet, but of life as honest / as you that thus abuse me.”
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*Make a comment from critics, theoretical perspectives, or alternative interpretations
