I do think it is their husbands’ faultsIf wives do fall:
It's funny how this narrative has changed. Now it's "normal" for a man to wonder and justify sleeping with someone else if his wife does't "give out" and the wife is to blame
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- Mar 2021
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strumpet!
old-fashioned + offensive : a woman who has sex with men for money or who has sex with many men. See the full definition for strumpet in the English Language Learners Dictionary.
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[IAGO from behind wounds CASSIO in the leg, and exit]
Iago shows once again that he's not exactly honorable and not a very nice person
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If I do die before thee prithee, shroud meIn one of those same sheets.
Forshadowing for her ultmate death
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- Feb 2021
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That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,And keep the gate of hell!
Religion is still so important in this time
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I understand a fury in your words.But not the words.
She understands that he's angry but not what he's saying
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[Striking her] Devil!
This is completely out of character for Othello. I'm also not defending him because anyone hitting their partner is not okay.
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A horned man’s a monster and a beast.
This alludes to: the traditional image of a man given horns to show that he is a cuckold, i.e. a husband whose wife has been unfaithful. Othello's loss of reason which makes him no better than a beast/animal.
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My lord is fall’n into an epilepsy:2470This is his second fit; he had one yesterday.
Proof that your body can have a physical reaction from awful things that other people do to you.
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Or to be naked with her friend in bedAn hour or more, not meaning any harm?2415
Iago is back with his chaotic behavor. He's trying to set Othello up
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If I do vow a friendship, I’ll perform it
Desdemona really is a good friend
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Desdemona. Shall I deny you? no: farewell, my lord.
There is clear tension betwen the two now.
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Nothing, my lord: or if—I know not what.
Iago is insinuating that he knows more but isn't saying anything/ trying to make the anticipation intense
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Good madam, do: I warrant it grieves my husband,As if the case were his.
Lago and his chaotic energy strikes again. Why didn't he let his wife in on his plan? He blindsided her along with everyone else.
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These letters give, Iago, to the pilot;And by him do my duties to the senate:That done, I will be walking on the works;Repair there to me.
Othello trusts Iago with his life and it seems like Iago is about to betray Othello or at least make his life more difficult.
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I’ll send her to you presently;And I’ll devise a mean to draw the MoorOut of the way, that your converse and business1590May be more free.
Iago is most likely happy that his plan is working. It's interesting to see how everyone trusts him but he's just chaotic
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Now, by heaven,My blood begins my safer guides to rule;And passion, having my best judgment collied,Assays to lead the way: if I once stir,1355Or do but lift this arm, the best of youShall sink in my rebuke. Give me to knowHow this foul rout began, who set it on;And he that is approved in this offence,Though he had twinn’d with me, both at a birth,1360Shall lose me. What! in a town of war,Yet wild, the people’s hearts brimful of fear,To manage private and domestic quarrel,In night, and on the court and guard of safety!‘Tis monstrous. Iago, who began’t?
Othello is really unhappy and is loosing his patience.
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You see this fellow that is gone before;He is a soldier fit to stand by CaesarAnd give direction: and do but see his vice;‘Tis to his virtue a just equinox,The one as long as the other: ’tis pity of him.1255I fear the trust Othello puts him in.On some odd time of his infirmity,Will shake this island.
Iago has chaotic energy
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To the health of our general!
I just find it ironic that they are toasting to "health" while drinking copious amounts of alcohol.
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And, I’ll warrant her, fun of game
He wants Cassio to sleep with Desdemona
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Indeed, they are disproportion’d;My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.
The war seems to be quite serious now and they're needing Othello
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And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance
Needs to meet with Othello urgently
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Not I. I must be found
Othello doesn't care that Iago wants him away from Desdemona's family but will face them head on
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Are you fast married?
Questioning his reason for getting married so quixkly and if he has 'sealed the deal'
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We cannot all be masters, nor all mastersCannot be truly follow’d.
I really like how strong this is and how relavant it is still today.
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By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman.
Roderigo really seems to hate Othello and would like to be the person to exacute him.
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epithets
Meaning: an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
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I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:
I think this is either him knowing his worth or it could mean arrogance.
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