I lack iniquity sometimes to do me service”Īct 1 Scene 2 Iago. Brabantio optimistically suggests that Desdemona has simply being charmed by Othello, therefore reinforcing the contemporary idea that foreigners, especially black foreigners, used witchcraft fro gain. “Is there not charms by which the property of youth and maidhood may be abused”Īct 1 Scene 1 Brabantio. His simile expresses the depths of his hatred towards Othello. “Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains”Īct 1 Scene 1 Iago. It is Iago’s villainy which fuels the entire plot and the audience, albeit ironically, are alerted early in the play. Ironically, Brabantio is speaking the truth at this point in the play, yet the quote underpins the entire text. Do not have to remember quote entirely, another example of racism by Iago emphasizing his later lies even more.Īct 1 Scene 1 Brabantio. “Have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse you’ll have your nephews neigh to you you’ll have coursers for cousins and gennets for Germans”Īct 1 Scene 1 Iago. Animalistic and crude language establishing his Machiavellian qualities. “An old black ram is tipping your white ewe”Īct 1 Scene 1 Iago. By using many imperatives and instruction, Iago asserts his dominance and control, almost abusing the power and hold he has of Rodrigo. Shakespeare immediately once again established a sense of danger and mystery in the character.Īct 1 Scene 1 Iago. His long tirade that this quote is embedded in highlights the power he has.Īct 1 Scene 1 spoken by Iago. This quote is infused with a semantic field of duplicity and deception. With our knowledge of the rest of the play we know he is suggesting betrayal and revenge. “I follow him to serve my time upon him””I follow but myself”Īct 1 Scene 1 spoken b Iago. Already establishes his misogyny and sexism which we will later see in the play. Insulting and patronising Cassio who ironically is in a higher position than he. “Forsooth a great arithmetician… A fellow damned in a fair wife That never set a squadron in the field”Īct 1 Scene 1 spoken by Iago.
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