othello final prep extracts + answers.pdf

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OTHELLOWilliam Shakespeare (published 1565)

CASSIO. It hath the devil drunkenness pleased to give place to the devil wrath; one unperfectness shows meanother, to make me frankly despise myself.

IAGO. Come, you are too severe a moraler: as the time,the place, and the condition of this countrystands, I could heartily wish this had not befallen;

but, since it is as it is, mend it for your own good.

CASSIO. I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell meI am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra,such an answer would stop them all. To be now asensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is

unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.

IAGO. Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature,if it be well used: exclaim no more against it.

And, good lieutenant, I think you think I love you.

CASSIO. I have well approved it, sir. I drunk!

IAGO. You or any man living may be drunk! at a time, man.I'll tell you what you shall do. Our general's wife

is now the general: may say so in this respect, forthat he hath devoted and given up himself to thecontemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts andgraces: confess yourself freely to her; importuneher help to put you in your place again: she is ofso free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition,

she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do morethan she is requested: thisbroken joint betweenyou and her husband entreat her to splinter; and, myfortunes against any lay worth naming, this

crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before.

CASSIO. You advise me well.

IAGO. I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness.

CASSIO. I think it freely; and betimes in the morning I willbeseech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me:

I am desperate of my fortunes if they cheque me here.

IAGO. You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant; I

must to the watch.

CASSIO: Good night, honest Iago.

Comment [j1]: Consonance: the d sound

Comment [j2]: hyperbaton

Comment [A3]: Consonnance: th e S

Comment [A4]: Asyndenton

Comment [j5]: sarcasm

Comment [A6]: SimileIllusion alluding to Hydra

Comment [j7]: antithesis

Comment [A8]: Apostrophoie

Comment [A9]: Personification and Met

Comment [j10]:personi fication

Comment [j11]: delayed sentence

Comment [j12]: PLOT

Comment [A13]: Historical Connotation

Comment [j14]: Trans wds

Comment [A15]: Anaphora

Comment [A16]: Eufony

Comment [j17]: characterization

Comment [j18]: analogy

Comment [j19]: euphemism

Comment [A20]: Irony


Comment [j22]: internal rhyme

Comment [A23]: Trafic Flaw -


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IAGO. I do beseech you--Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,As, I confess, it is my nature's plagueTo spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy

Shapes faults that are not--that your wisdom yet,From one that so imperfectly conceits,Would take no notice, nor build yourself a troubleOut of his scattering and unsure observance.It were not for your quiet nor your good,Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom,

To let you know my thoughts.

OTHELLO. What dost thou mean?

IAGO. Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,

Is the immediatejewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:But he that filches from me my good name

Robs me of that which not enriches him

And makes me poor indeed.

OTHELLO. By heaven, I'll know thy thoughts.

IAGO. You cannot, if my heart were in your hand;

Nor shall not, whilst 'tis in my custody.

OTHELLO. Ha!

IAGO. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in blissWho, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er

Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!

OTHELLO. O misery!

IAGO. Poor and content is rich and rich enough,But riches fineless is as poor as winterTo him that ever fears he shall be poor.Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defendFrom jealousy!

Comment [PM24]: Archaic Diction


Comment [PM26]: Connotation: Human/ Sylogism


Comment [PM28]: Characterization

Comment [j29]: anthro

Comment [PM30]: Litote

Comment [PM31]: Alliteration: Assona

Comment [PM32]: Delayed sentence &amplification

Comment [PM33]: Asyndeton

Comment [j34]: Delayed sentence

Comment [PM35]: Archaic Diction

Comment [j36]: thesis

Comment [j37]: theme: reputation

Comment [j38]: epithet

Comment [PM39]: Metaphors

Comment [PM40]: Alliteration: Conson

Comment [j41]: expletive

Comment [PM42]: Contradiction

Comment [PM43]: Apostrophe, Colloqu

Comment [PM44]: Foreshadow

Comment [j45]: exclamation

Comment [j46]: epithet

Comment [PM47]: Analogy, connotatioallusion to 7 deadly sins

Comment [PM48]: Cacophony

Comment [PM49]: Allusion

Comment [PM50]: Contradiction

Comment [PM51]: Asyndeton

Comment [j52]: Consonance:T sounds

Comment [PM53]: Thesis

Comment [PM54]: Apostrophe

Comment [j55]:juxt aposition

Comment [PM56]: Simile


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IAGO. And did you see the handkerchief?OTHELLO. Was that mine?

IAGO. Yours by this hand: and to see how he prizes theFoolish woman our wife! She gave it to him, and he

Hath given it to his whore.

OTHELLO. I would have him nine years a-killing.

IAGO. Nay, you must forget that.

OTHELLO. Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be damned to-night;for she shall not live: no, my heart is turned tostone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand. O, theworld hath not a sweeter creature: she might lie by

an emperor's side and command him tasks.

IAGO.Nay, that's not your way.OTHELLO. Hang her! I do but say what she is: so delicatewith her needle: an admirable musician: O! shewill sing the savageness out of a bear: of so high

and plenteous wit and invention:--

IAGO. She's the worse for a ll this.

OTHELLO. O, a thousand thousand times: and then, of s ogentle a condition!

IAGO. Ay, too gentle.

OTHELLO. Nay, that's certain: but yet the pity of it, Iago!O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!

IAGO. If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her

patent to offend; for, if it touch not you, it comesnear nobody.

OTHELLO. I will chop her into messes: cuckold me!

IAGO. O, 'tis foul in her.

OTHELLO . With mine officer!

IAGO. That's fouler.

OTHELLO. Get me some poison, Iago; this night: I'll notexpostulate with her, lest her body and beautyunprovide my mind again: this night, Iago.

IAGO. Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed, eventhe bed she hath contaminated.

OTHELLO. Good, good: the justice of it pleases: very good.

IAGO. And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker: youshall hear more by midnight.

OTHELLO. Excellent good.

Comment [PM58]: Motif, Cultural contcourting, Symbolic: Othellos love

Comment [PM59]: Invective, SynecdocSocial context

Comment [j60]: hyperbole

Comment [PM61]: Foreshadow!

Comment [j62]: litote

Comment [PM63]: Bibliomancy

Comment [PM64]: Hyperbole and imag

Comment [j65]: Internal rhyme

Comment [j66]: invective

Comment [j67]: hyperbole

Comment [j68]: characterizatio

Comment [PM69]: Anadiplosis

Comment [j70]: Trans wd

Comment [j71]: Consonance: T sound

Comment [PM72]: Connotation

Comment [j73]: repetition


Comment [j75]:juxt aposition

Comment [PM76]: Cacophony

Comment [j77]: Repetition: this night ia

Comment [PM78]: Euphemism

Comment [PM79]: Repetition

Comment [j80]: anthropomorphism

Comment [PM81]: Connotation: Killer

Comment [PM82]: Periphrasis

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