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  1. Mar 2024
    1. f she be black, and thereto have a wit,She’ll find a white that shall her blackness fit.

      Iago's point is that a woman's main asset is her beauty -- that will get her anywhere. And that her goal is to marry and produce an heir.

    2. I am not merry, but I do beguileThe thing I am by seeming otherwise.

      Seems like Iago, a mirror of him....

    3. You rise to play and go to bed to work.

      WOW!!!!

    4. As of her tongue she oft bestows on me,You would have have enough

      Misogynistic thinking -- he does not believe that her speech is worth his listening.

    5. 'Tis my breedingThat gives me this bold show of courtesy

      A show of cause and effect of race and blood to behavior

    6. The great contention of the sea and skiesParted our fellowship—

      once again, symbol

    7. s.Hail to thee, lady, and the grace of heaven

      Always referred to side by side with the angels or grace of heaven

    8. Whose footing here anticipates our thoughtsA se'nnight’s speed

      I interpreted this as Iago's footing being sly and undetected by the human mind...? Was I wrong?

    9. our great captain’s captain

      Guardian angel of Othello himself

    10. As having sense of beauty, do omitTheir mortal natures, letting go safely byThe divine Desdemona

      Is Desdemona somehow the only figure that can ease the storm, falter the wrath that Iago brings, Othello's source of protection and of hope? Juxtaposition between heavenly and mortal world, the opposite of evil himself, Iago

    11. News, lads, Our wars are done

      Ironic, because they are not done -- the storm has overtaken the threat of the turks.

    12. Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned.It is impossible they bear it out

      Could this signify that something stands to comfort and protect each from the storm?

    13. For they were partedWith foul and violent tempest

      Foreshadows the incoming rift, the blinding storm that will tear Cassio and Othello apart. The word "foul and violent" describes the manner in which Iago will do this

    14. And will as tenderly be led by th' noseAs asses are

      Compared to a donkey

    15. ake all the money thou canst. If sanctimonyand a frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian andsupersubtle Venetian be not too hard for my wits and allthe tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her.

      Showing that he believes his wills make him the God of the world, that he has ultimate power over the chessboard just through intention alone -- and that is the work of the devil, the rejection of emotion's sway on decision making, and pure reason

    16. Drown thyself?

      What does drowning oneself mean again?! Refer to the Reading Literature like a Professor book

    17. ut we have reason tocool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbittedlusts. Whereof I take this that you call love to be asect or scion.

      Perhaps his belief that he is uncontrolled by emotion and unconstrainted, and therefore is superior, is what makes him so evil? The detachment of oneself to their biological and true feeling is the work of the devil: reason.

    18. Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus orthus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our willsare gardeners

      Iago's main core lies in self-control and motivation -- he believes himself to be a man of simple free will, and unlimited freedom. Unrestrained and in control of the chessboard -- he assumes both the external world and (mistakenly) his internal world are under his control, but they may not be.

    19. sterile with idleness, or manured withindustry

      Fertile or not fertile, choice of life and or death, of renewal or of idleness

    20. I would change my humanitywith a baboon

      He would sell his soul to the devil instead of sacrificing himself for another's love -- he does not believe in love.

    21. For nature so prepost'rously to err,

      Fundamental problem: Othello x Desdemona is unnatural and bending the laws of nature -- but Brabantio alienated diminishes this idea in the mind of the reader.

    22. Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing natureThat it engluts and swallows other sorrowsAnd it is still itself.

      Exaggerated emotions in the form of water and nature -- what could this mean? ALSO, Shows the role of emotion in this political setting, which is a recurring motif of overlap in personal and political decisions that runs throughout. How do you make a good ruler, leader who does not impulsively use personal emotion to decide in political circumstances? Reminds me of Hitler

    23. We lacked your counsel and your help tonight.

      Humorous, as it shows the lack of Brabantio's care in the political field, he is incompetent -- only woke up from bed to address his daughter's married life.

      If he can't do political, can he do personal? And vice versa -- alienates him from the reader -> Alienates from his racist ideas.

    24. Valiant Othello

      Important because it contrasts all the other views of Othello -- but when he is a general, he is valiant. What does this signify about roles? About our split between personal and professional/political life?

    25. The trust, the office I do hold of you,Not only take away, but let your sentenceEven fall upon my life.

      Willing to leverage, but also highlights another side to Othello -- he is a prideful man who has the need to prove things, to win in chivalry -- not so much her love, but the fact he has her love.

    26. To fall in love with what she feared to look on?

      Is she a mirror of Brabantio's own fears, and ideals, and therefore so appeals to him -- he compliments what he sees in Desdemona that resembles him, himself.

    27. I won his daughter.

      The diction is yet again paralleled to the military aspect that he just mentioned -- he is still a soldier, still a warlord, still someone that wins battles -- not an equal in love ?

    28. Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense

      Like a puppet, he imposes his own senses, perception as her own

  2. Jan 2024
    1. To mourn a mischief that is past and goneIs the next way to draw new mischief on

      Also refers to the accumulation of cataclysm that builds up in Othello throughout the play from the "mourning" and discrimination of his blackness.

    2. My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of duty.I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband.And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord

      Shows that she is nothing as an individual but solely as an asset to both-- who she recognizes herself as is completely solely based on her roles in men's life.

    3. She’d come again, and with a greedy earDevour up my discourse, which I, observing,Took once a pliant hour and found good meansTo draw from her a prayer of earnest heartThat I would all my pilgrimage dilate,Whereof by parcels she had something heardBut not intentively. I did consent,And often did beguile her of her tearsWhen I did speak of some distressful strokeThat my youth suffered. My story being doneShe gave me for my pains a world of sighs.She swore, in faith, ’twas strange, ’twas passingstrange,'Twas pitiful, ’twas wondrous pitiful.

      Seen as a source of entertainment, of tragedy, Desdemona loves him for his suffering and tragedy -- of his foreignness and surprise? She pities him for having endured all that. As a play

    4. BRABANTIOMy daughter! Oh, my daughter!BRABANTIOMy daughter! Oh, my daughter!ALLDead?ALLIs she dead?BRABANTIOAy, to me.She is abused, stol'n from me, and corruptedBy spells and medicines bought of mountebanks

      Her father considers her dead because she has shown a side of her that doesn't fit in his stereotypical thinking -- she has shown dynamism, less of an object and more of a person.

    5. thou hast enchanted her!

      Othello is seen as the witch, not desdemona, yet. Both desdemona and othello are seen as completely 2D forms of everything their stereotype says.

    6. Is there not charmsBy which the property of youth and maidhoodMay be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,Of some such thing?

      Belief of witchery

    7. Ay.

      Desdemona represents Othello's ties to Venetian society and his Venetian identity that he is already insecure about and holding so desperately onto.

    8. Belief of it oppresses me already.Light, I say, light

      In this case, the light motif is about awareness

    9. I say again, hath made a gross revolt,Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunesIn an extravagant and wheeling strangerOf here and everywhere

      These are all the characteristics they value in her, like a new car.

    10. Even now, now, very now, an old black ramIs tupping your white ewe.

      Dehumanization and picturing the relationship as a horrid rape and beastiality between Desdemona and Othello, capturing the Social Identity Theory at its finest.

    11. Presently.Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin,For to deny each article with oathCannot remove nor choke the strong conceptionThat I do groan withal. Thou art to die.

      Evidence to show that, explicitly, no matter what she says or does, he has excluded her reason and fixed his mind on one solution: to kill her, to be rid of her. Shows the stubbornness of the mind and his view of her still as an object. Manhood/chivalry = Isolated and stubborn choices.

    12. That handkerchiefWhich I so loved and gave thee, thou gav’stTo Cassio.

      Handkerchief is a motif of Desdemona's love and affections. Of where her heart lies.

    13. It strikes where it doth love.

      He plays the role of Justice, of Zeus, of the gods who keep up the neverending cycle of life and death. He plays the honest honor of a man, which in contrast, Iago believes he has but does not.

    14. know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume. When I have plucked thy roseI cannot give it vital growth again,

      Allusion to Prometheus who brings life in the form of fire. Is fire/light a recurring motif in the story for life and passion?

    15. t is the cause, it is the cause, my soul.Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars,It is the cause.

      Repetition to show rationalization, reassuring himself

    16. thy rose

      associated with beauty

    17. This sorrow’s heavenly,

      Oxymoron

    18. that comes to tell you your daughter andthe Moor are now making the beast with two backs

      Could this be an illusion to the birth of the Minotaur under a curse?

    19. you’ll have yourdaughter covered with a Barbary horse. You’ll have yournephews neigh to you. You’ll have coursers for cousinsand gennets for germans.

      The comparison of Black people to beastly beings, such as horses. It nearly shows a predatory danger for Desdemona like getting eaten up by wolves. He describes a human loving relationship as an animalistic dynamic

    20. nd now in madness,Being full of supper and distempering drafts

      Drunkeness indicating/foreshadowing the manipulation Roderigo and other characters will fall under from Iago's malicious plans.

    21. Why, wherefore ask you this?

      Huge contrast between Brabantio and Iago's speech. Iago speaks with great rhetoric and symbolism with souls and devils, indicating his own witchery. This is contrasted with the conversational style of Brabantio.

    22. Poison his delight,Proclaim him in the streets. Incense her kinsmen,And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,Plague him with flies. Though that his joy be joyYet throw such changes of vexation on’t,As it may lose some colo

      "Poison" "Incense" "Plague" "Vexation" all signify witchery, indicating the motif of mutual witchery. What one hates in oneself will be targeted to the outside?

    23. For when my outward action doth demonstrateThe native act and figure of my heartIn compliment extern, ’tis not long afterBut I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at. I am not what I am

      His duplicity is so extreme that he simply cannot define himself as he says "I am not what I am". It is ironic because his hate for Cassio is the same as what he is -- a dishonest witch who pretends to be righteous man. Does this indicate he hates himself as well?

    24. What a full fortune does the Thick-lips oweIf he can carry’t thus!

      Demonstrates yet again the objectification and erasing of dimensions of Moors.. just like women.

    25. In following him, I follow but myself.

      An ironic phrase as the diction seems passionate and self-aware

    26. Whip me such honest knaves. Others there areWho, trimmed in forms and visages of duty,Keep yet their hearts attending on themselvesAnd, throwing but shows of service on their lords,Do well thrive by them. And when they have lined theircoats,Do themselves homage.

      The true colors of Iago, ironically just like what he hated Cassio for, the sly and two-faced witchery

    27. follow him to serve my turn upon him.

      Irony established from previous chivalrous idea

    28. Preferment goes by letter and affection,And not by old gradation, where each secondStood heir to th' first.

      A kind of juxtaposition between the "womanly" / "witch-like" Michael Cassio and the "chivalrous" and "honest" man Iago (as seen by him), showing the perception of men and women.

    29. A fellow almost damned in a fair wife

      Demonstrates the view of women as two-dimensional tools with specific and sole uses for men, who cannot take or assume any other role that men may.

  3. May 2023
    1. however, not all nonpolar side groups can be buried.

      Would this always cause a sticky end that can cause aggregations of proteins? Would it always be problematic?

    2. Also note that every atom in the backbone has a slight charge arising from the presence of the electronegative atoms O and N. Hence the backbone is polar.

      That's why secondary structure is not dependent on R-groups polarity. A polar or charged R-group and a nonpolar R group do not determine the polarity of the backbone -- it is always polar, and can always participate in secondary structure.