He invites Othello to his house, he respects him as a soldier, but Barbantio can’t imagine Othello as his son-in-law. Barbantio, Desdemona’s father, is Othello’s long-term friend, but he strongly opposes this marriage. This scene, at the very beginning of the play, is penetrated with racial commentaries. The Elizabethan audience was not prepared even to imagine an interracial couple, but because Iago is such a malicious character, the audience is on Othello’s side. In these first lines, which produce an immense effect on the audience, Othello is being called “the Moor,” “the thick lips,” “a lascivious Moor,” and “an old black ram.” Iago tells Barbantio: (Emilia, Act 5 Scene 2) I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this,Īre we missing any great Othello quotes? Let us know in the comments section below.The three characters express race prejudice towards Othello and offer a sneak peek of how race relations in Elizabethan England looked like. (Othello, Act 5 Scene 2) Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,Īll, all, cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak.
#OTHELLO QUOTES JEALOUSY SKIN#
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, (Iago – Act 5, Scene 1) Yet I’ll not shed her blood, (Emilia, Act 3 Scene 4) Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?Įmilia (Act 4, Scene 3) T’is neither here nor thereĮmilia (Act 4, Scene 3) It makes us or it mars us.
#OTHELLO QUOTES JEALOUSY FULL#
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They are all but stomachs, and we all but food: (Othello, Act 3 Scene 3) ‘Tis not a year or two shows us a man: It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockįarewell the tranquil mind farewell content. Iago (Act 2, Scene 3) O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: (Cassio, Act 2 Scene 3) Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving (Desdemona – Act 2, Scene 1) Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. (Othello, Act 2 Scene 1) I am not merry but I do beguil May the winds blow till they have wakened death!
The Duke (Act 1, Scene 3) If after every tempest come such calms, (Iago, Act 1 Scene 3) To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on. (Iago, Act 1 Scene 3) Put money in thy purse. ( Desdemona, Act 1 Scene 3) Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners. To you I am bound for life and education: (Othello, Act 1 Scene 3) My noble father, (Iago – Act 1, Scene 1) She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished We cannot all be masters, nor all masters (Iago, Act 1 Scene 1) I follow to serve my turn upon him:
( Iago, Act 1 Scene 1) Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Along with each Othello quote the character speaking is listed, along with act and scene. Read our selection of the very best quotes from Othello below, spoken by a variety of primary and secondary characters in the play. As ever, Shakespeare brings new words and phrases into common usage – from describing jealousy as a “ green-eyed monster” to having Iagio say that he will wear his heart upon his sleeve. Looking for Othello quotes? Othello remains one of Shakespeare’s most enduring plays, full of memorable quotes from start to finish. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
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