RODERIGO is a vulnerable ‘friend’ of Iago’s, who is in love with Desdemona and shares Iago’s hatred of Othello for this reason. He doesn’t apologise for his actions, he believes himself to be deceived but a good man really. Othello calling Iago “this honest creature” continues to illustrate this irony of their relationship because Iago is the most deceitful character in the play and only intentions are to lie and harm Othello. Iago: “The Moor is of a free and open nature / And will as tenderly be led by th’nose / As asses are” – plan created – make Othello believe in Desdemona having sex with Cassio.Iago aims to put Othello: “At least into a jealousy so strong / That judgement cannot cure”Iago: “Ha? Here she warns her about the nature of men. 'O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil'. He doesn’t seem to have any real friends, as he clearly just uses everyone around him, we therefore don’t see any soft side to Iago, he is just 100% villain who remains this way throughout the play.Roderigo as Iago stabs him: “O damned Iago! Emilia is perceptive and cynical, maybe as a result of her relationship with Iago. He loved Desdemona too much, too desperately, to be able to be wise and judicious and balanced. They belch us. Othello: “Why did I marry? (1.3). Even more ironic Othello also calls Iago a ‘villain’; though he is no way means this accusation to … RODERIGO: To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor (1.1), IAGO: I will wear my heart upon my sleeve/ For daws to peck at. IAGO: …whether he kill Cassio/Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,/Every way makes my gain. O, I have lost my reputation!” – perhaps Cassio’s weakness number 2, desperate for his position back + easy for Iago to manipulate.Cassio: “I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial” – further showing Cassio’s despair at losing his reputation.Cassio: “O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!” – about wine/alcohol – Cassio blames the drink, no blame on Iago at all. OPTIONS: Show cue speeches • Show full speeches # Act, Scene, Line (Click to see in context) Speech text: 1. She remains true to herself until the end and doesn’t fall to Othello constantly trying to make her admit to cheating on him. ACT FOUR-Emilia: 'But I do think it is their husbands' faults/ If wives do fall...break out in peevish jealousies,/ Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us...we have galls; and though we have some grace,/Yet we have some revenge. He attacks Cassio on Iago’s orders and manages to wound him but is also wounded in return, which is where Iago takes advantage of the situation and finishes him off as Roderigo becomes dangerous as he knows the truth about Iago. The thought whereof/Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards,/And nothing can or shall content my soul/Till I am evened with him, wife for wife./Or, failing so, yet that I put the Moor/At least into a jealousy so strong/That judgment cannot cure. Charles Haughey said this at his resignation speech. monstrous!” It works. III,4,2325. Othello recalls a time when he wasn’t preoccupied with jealousy. He’s not sure, but a suspicion is enough. (3.3). (Note where these lines appear: before he’s had an iota of proof and despite the ‘if’, these lines are telling: he can already imagine his situation as a betrayed lover). IAGO: I speak not yet of proof…/I would not have your free and noble nature/Out of self-bounty be abused. This is a compact set of “Othello” quotes for Leaving Cert English that will get you through an “Othello” single text question. He perhaps has suicidal thoughts, which is where Iago takes control of him in this weakness and Roderigo becomes Iago’s lackey who does everything he commands, although this sometimes takes a bit of persuading. Act I In following him, I follow but myself. Cassio: “I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking” – Cassio’s weakness but I think Iago already knows this, or if not, he uses this very wisely into his plan.Othello: “Cassio, I love thee / But never more be officer of mine” – Iago’s plan succeeds, Othello falls into this trap but doesn’t have much choice either after Cassio’s actions.Cassio: “Reputation, reputation, reputation! Iago about Othello: “that ‘twixt my sheet / He has done my office: I know not if’t be true” – doubts about Othello having sex with his wife – trying to justify further his hatred? 0.0 / 5. (You don’t need the whole quote, just 1-2 lines, but it’s here in full for clarity. 0.0 / 5. 41566540: Act V scene II. Make sure you give me proof (and of course, Iago doesn’t. OTHELLO: Then must you speak/ Of one that loved not wisely but too well (5.3). (4.3). This honest creature doubtless”Othello: “O curse of marriage!” – straight after these doubts emerge in himself.Othello: “That we can call these delicate creatures ours / And not their appetites!”Othello to Desdemona when he takes her moist hand: “For here’s a young and sweating devil here”Othello: “Lie with her? Othello’s initial reaction to Iago’s insinuations is appropriate. (4.2). I am not what I am. Act Iv Scene III. 121-123). Emilia says this line after she picks up the handkerchief Desdemona has dropped, planning to turn it over to Iago. Then in the next scene, Emilia says “They [men] are all but stomachs, and we all but food; / They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, / They belch us. Iago sees himself as being able to play on people’s heart strings. Emilia's super-bitter take on her married life with Iago contrasts with Desdemona's (temporarily) idealistic marriage to Othello. II,1,903. Othello: “I love the gentle Desdemona”Othello: “How I did thrive in this fair lady’s love / And she in mine”Othello: “My story being done / She gave me for my pains a world of kisses” – the love between Othello and Desdemona occurred after his cruel start to life being “sold to slavery”. Emilia: “I am glad I have found this napkin” … “I nothing but to please his fantasy” (Iago’s desires).Iago: “It is a common thing – to have a foolish wife” Once he has the handkerchief: “Go, leave me” and she leaves.Emilia lies to Desdemona about the handkerchief: “I know not, madam”Emilia: “They eat us hungerly, and when they are full / They belch us” – talking about how men treat women but could also link to her relationship with Iago.Emilia to Othello about Desdemona being, “honest, chaste, and true”Emilia: “If any wretch have put this in your head / Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse!” – Ironic as her husband is this ‘wretch’.Emilia: “But I do think it is their husbands’ faults / If wives do fall”Emilia: “And have not we affections? Ironic, he denies her from living in the end.Othello: “Of one that loved not wisely but too well”Othello: “Killing myself, to die upon a kiss”. In this quote, Emilia tells us what she really thinks about men. Desires for sport? Make all the money thou canst” – Iago’s persuasive + exploitation of Roderigo’s weaknesses, links to him getting him to do something very dangerous in attacking Cassio. Emilia is outraged and plain speaking about Othello’s treatment of Desdemona ‘They are all but stomachs, and we all but food, they eat us hungrily and when they are full they belch us’ Emilia speaks plainly about men’s exploitation of women in the 17th century ‘He tonight hath boarded a land carrack’ DUKE: To vouch this is no proof/ Without more wider and more overt test/ Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods/Of modern seeming do prefer against him.(1.3). It’s also possible to purchase our “Othello” pack on its own here. ... Othello. Roderigo is the first to find out about Iago’s deception but dies pretty much straight after this. Desdemona’s father thinks that Othello must have used magic to make her love him. Emilia. OTHELLO: I fetch my life and being / From men of royal siege. Othello is unable to win him over with his story of how Desdemona fell in love with him. Hide Show resource information. Brabantio: “So opposite to marriage that she shunned / The wealthy curlèd dearling of our nation” Desdemona: “I do perceive here a divided duty”Desdemona lies to Othello about the handkerchief: “It is not lost” – Othello keeps asking Desdemona about the handkerchief, while Desdemona keeps mentioning Cassio and getting his position back, “You’ll never meet a more sufficient man”Desdemona: “I have not deserved this”Desdemona: “Your wife, my lord, your true and loyal wife”Desdemona: “What ignorant sin have I committed?” – she still hasn’t been told after all of this.Willow Song that Desdemona sings, sad, about a woman lamenting lost love, originally a song about a man whose wife betrayed him cruelly. If I can’t tell an honest face, no one can (ironic, since she can’t tell Iago’s a liar). DUKE: To mourn a mischief that is past and gone/Is the next way to draw new mischief on. My cleverness lies in my deceitfulness. (1.3), IAGO: O, you are well tuned now!/But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music,/As honest as I am. Iago: “That he would steal away so guilty-like / Seeing your coming”Othello to Iago, trying to find out his thoughts about Desdemona and Cassio: “What dost thou think?” Iago: “Think, my lord?” – Iago perhaps stalling for time, trying to make sure it’s done right, not too quick to accuse Cassio OR trying to be a good friend to Cassio = no reason to doubt his words.Othello: “Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago” – Iago has to back-track quickly or risk becoming a suspect + fail his plan, so changes the subject but not completely – “I confess it is my nature’s plague” – “Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not”Iago: “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: / It is a green-eyed monster” – makes Othello doubt himself rather than Iago anymore.Iago: “Look to your wife, observe her well with Cassio” – he purposely doesn’t explain why, still not wanting to incriminate his friend – further shows this with, “Cassio’s my worthy friend”Iago: “The Moor already changes with my poison” – “But with a little act upon the blood / Burn like the mines of sulphur”Iago: “To be direst and honest is not safe” – has to stop Othello’s threats or he might be in the line of fire so uses Othello’s doubts, who wants Iago to talk truthfully as he thinks to him. V,2,3498. OTHELLO: Put out the light, and then put out the light. This is from Othello’s most famous soliloquy. by sorallellow1999, Jan. 2017. She is mistreated by Iago throughout the play, who has dominance over her, as all the husbands in this play do, but she does notice the unfairness of it all, where Desdemona doesn’t really in her innocence. Iago: “I hate the Moor”Iago: “I follow him to serve my turn on him”Iago: “Call up her father / Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight”Iago: “an old black ram / is tupping your white ewe”Iago: “I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs”Iago to Emilia: “Villainous w.h.o.r.e!” – when she starts to tell of what happened with the handkerchief – key knowledge for finding out Desdemona’s innocence.Iago to Desdemona & Emilia: “You rise to play and go to bed to work” – sexist language – women’s only use is for sex. 21. From probably the most famous soliloquy of the play. This indicates a certain innuendo already at this early stage, Iago referring to women (fair wife who almost damns Cassio, presumably because he cannot manage her), knowing no more than a spinster, i.e. He cannot rest until he evens the score by seducing Desdemona or at least drives him insane. And frailty, as men have?” – Emilia’s feminist speak, men and women aren’t much different, not in accordance with the way they are treated.Emilia: “O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!”Emilia: “My husband?” – she repeats this 3 times when she finds out what her Iago has done purposely.Emilia, after Iago tells her to shut up: “I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak”Emilia: “‘Tis proper I obey him, but not now” “I will not” – in her despair she cares not for the patriarchal rules in society, she becomes the speaker of truth.Emilia starts to sing the Willow Song on her deathbed but can’t remember the words. Also her loyalty to Desdemona may belie this rumour too. Later in the play Emilia goes on to make additional, subversive statements that go against the grain of the cultural misogyny of the contemporary era. Her loyalty to Othello is unusually high, and even when he kills her, she doesn’t blame him, and she lies to Emilia for his sake (just like Emilia lied to Desdemona for Iago’s sake). 86. Roderigo: “I will incontinently drown myself” (immediately) – vulnerability or just expression of his emotions and anger?Roderigo: “It is silliness to live when to live is torment”Iago to Roderigo: “Come, be a man” – “If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way than drowning. EMILIA: But I do think it is their husbands’ faults If wives do fall (4.3). (1.2). Desdemona’s murder moves Emilia to take the stage and attack the men that wrought these horrors, privileging the loyalty and true speech of friendship over her personal safety: EMILIA: Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt. Othello, scene iii; There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. being as inexperienced in battle as a spinster would be in marriage, all talk and no action on the battlefield, but with the parallel association of sexual impotence. Probably something every addicted brain needs to recall in moments of sobriety, and not a bad epithet for our times, if we imagine our addiction to consumerism as a kind of drunkenness, from which we wake, periodically, with horror. Othello’s Weakness Quotes (succumbing to jealousy and doubt)? In Act III, scene iv Desdemona asks Emilia if she know where she lost her handkerchief. Emilia suggests that women are powerless and abused by men. Emilia - Key Quotes. OTHELLO: No, Iago, I’ll see before I doubt. 3. Perhaps Othello being sold to slavery is where his insecurities began – fated just like their love.Othello: “My life upon her faith!” – Othello would bet his life she remains faithful – ironic.Othello to Desdemona: “O my fair warrior”Othello to Desdemona: “I will deny thee nothing” – he will give Cassio his job back but with time. Later in the play, she will be devastated to realize how her action contributed to a chain of events culminating in … Iago sows doubt and ingratiates himself to Othello. Iago: “It is a common thing – to have a foolish wife” Once he has the handkerchief: “Go, leave me” and she leaves – acts hatefully towards his own wife. - Emilia: 'They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;/ They eat us hungrily, and when they are full/ They belch us.' – Desdemona’s aunt died singing it – foreshadowing her death.Desdemona pleading for time: “Kill me tomorrow, let me live tonight!” “But half an hour!” “But while I say one prayer!”Desdemona: “O falsely, falsely murdered!”Desdemona: “A guiltless death I die”Desdemona: “Nobody: I myself. He is ignorant but as are the rest of the characters in the play. (3.3). Designed by GonThemes. IAGO: Even now, now, very now, an old black ram/Is tupping your white ewe. Hearsay and prejudice don’t make something true. At the end, she becomes the bringer of truth and sheds light onto the others of Iago’s falsehoods, which brings about her demise as she anger Iago in doing this and he kills her. Othello Love Quotes; Othello Love Quotes. EMILIA: If any wretch have put this in your head/Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse. OTHELLO: She loved me for the dangers I had passed,/And I loved her that she did pity them./. Emilia Analysis . This quote shows that Emilia at this point feels little moral responsibility, and in fact might prefer not to know the details of what her husband is plotting. (5.1). Self explanatory but a trick question because Desdemona cannot answer yes or no without implicating herself. II,1,924. Heaven knows, not I. Home > A Level and IB study tools > English Literature > Emilia - Key Quotes. Look you [Desdemona], Cassio and my husband! OTHELLO: Her name, that was as fresh/As Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black/As mine own face (3.3). EMILIA: If any wretch have put this in your head/Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse. OTHELLO: My parts, my title and my perfect soul/ Shall manifest me rightly. She is submissive to Othello’s will apart from when she decides to get Cassio his position back, there she is determined to succeed in her kind act for a friend. Iago adds fuel to the fire, conflating appearance and reality for Othello. ... Emilia afraid of Iago. (4.1). I am abused; and my relief/ Must be to loathe her. BRABANTIO: a maid so tender, fair and happy,/ So opposite to marriage that she shunned The wealthy curled darlings of our nation (1.2). You may also like: “Othello” plot summary. (2.1). Emilia appears in few scenes within Othello, mainly as an adjunct to another (Desdemona or Iago). Iago states he hates Othello because he thinks Othello slept with Iago’s wife. (2.3). DESDEMONA: I have no judgment in an honest face (3.3). (III.4.104–7) It's actually pretty aww-inspiring: Emilia and Desdemona bond over husband trouble. You may also like: Complete Guide to Leaving Cert English 2022. Iago, scene I, Iago, scene I Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end: For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern,'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am. 22. He uses insinuation and the supposed proof of the handkerchief given by Othello to Desdemona and dropped by her handkerchief). 23). “They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; To eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us.” (Act 3, Scene 4) Emilia is full of experience and wisdom which she often shares with Desdemona. CASSIO is the lieutenant of Othello’s, which starts off the chain of events with Iago wanting that position. (2.1), Iago explains his motivation: Othello allegedly slept with his wife and this is eating Iago from within. Othello threatens Iago: “If thou dost slander her (falsely accuse Desdemona) and torture me / Never pray more” – threatening damnation on Iago.Othello: “I’ll tear her all to pieces!” “O blood, blood, blood!” “D.a.m.n her, lewd minx!” – Othello hasn’t even seen the ‘proof’ yet – the handkerchief.Othello has even more murderous thoughts after seeing the handkerchief: “How shall I murder him, Iago?” “Hang her!”Iago encourages Othello’s murderous thoughts, no need to tread carefully anymore now that Othello is certain: “strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated” – Othello pretty much does this.Othello: “Devil!” – and strikes Desdemona in public.Othello to Desdemona: “Come, swear it, damn thyself” – he sees her false either way now.Othello: “She’s like a liar gone to burning hell / ‘Twas I that killed her” – admits to the murder himself, too proud to let a ‘w.h.o.r.e’ lie for him. She tells Desdemona that “they eat us hungerly, and when they are full / They belch us” (3.4.) In Act III Scene 4 we see that Emilia is more realistic about male–female relationships than Desdemona. Iago: “I know my price, I am worth no worse a place”Iago: “From this time forth I never will speak word” – he doesn’t speak again for the rest of the play, won’t even explain the motive of his actions to the others. Again, later in the scene Emilia misses another opportunity to foil Iago’s plan. IAGO: Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy!/ It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/ The meat it feeds on. Othello questions Emilia about Cassio and Desdemona’s relationship, acting as if Emilia is the mistress of a brothel and Desdemona… Act 4, scene 3 Othello, walking with Lodovico, orders Desdemona to go to bed and to dismiss Emilia. “Emilia: 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man. Emilia love for Desdemona. Brabantio: “O thou foul thief”Brabantio: “Where hast thou stowed my daughter?”Brabantio: “A maiden never bold… To fall in love with what she feared to look on!”Brabantio: “She is abused, stol’n from me and corrupted / By spells and medicines”Brabantio: “So opposite to marriage that she shunned / The wealthy curlèd dearling of our nation” Brabantio: “my particular grief / Is of so flood-gate and o’erbearing nature / That it engluts and swallows other sorrows / And it is still itself”Brabantio: “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: / She has deceived her father, and may thee”. 4. Emilia's Role Emilia is Desdemona's lady in waiting, or attendant. BRABANTIO: For if such actions may have passage free,/Bondslaves and pagans shall our statesmen be. He is very good with words and won over the Duke and Desdemona in his skill at storytelling. Look you, Cassio and my husband! Here, Emilia speaks her mind, but in private, and … (3.3). Probably the most famous line of the play. and later explains to her mistress that “I do think it is their husbands’ faults / If wives do fall” (4.3. He makes the conclusion to act against Othello as if he had definitely done this.Iago: “For that I do suspect the lusty Moor / Hath leapt into my seat” – repeating his thoughts that Othello has cuckolded him. Roderigo as Iago stabs him: “O damned Iago! Emilia is clearly annoyed that Othello called Desdemona a whore and fervently believes that she can do better. A proud man, well-respected in society, ends up a murderer but still has some remnants of pride. O inhuman dog!”. Emilia sees how upset Othello gets about Desdemona not being able to produce the handkerchief yet she does not come forth. All rights reserved. Cultural Context – The Great Gatsby, Children of Men and The Plough and The Stars for Leaving Cert English #625Lab, Robert Frost Sample Essay: A Young Audience, Leaving Cert English Opinion Piece #625Lab, Terms and Conditions and Privacy Statement. She instead says: “So speaking as I think, alas, I die”. Just as Othello’s start to life was Fate, so was their love which happened because of this. He hates that Desdemona chose Othello over him and goes as far as to warn Othello that Desdemona might deceive him too, even though this is clearly not in her nature. Iago, scene iii 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us. All of the characters fall prey to his manipulation as many characters call him ‘honest’ on numerous occasions. 0.0 / 5. Powered by WordPress. (1.1). Othello Characters and Literary criticisms. I nothing but to please his fancy. The others are so far beneath him they don’t deserve to know, probably won’t understand his complex mind.Iago: “The Moor already changes with my poison” – “But with a little act upon the blood / Burn like the mines of sulphur”Iago: “Thus do I ever make my fool my purse” – about Roderigo after he has him trapped in his persuasion. Please always use your own version of “Othello”. They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us.” ― William Shakespeare, Othello Emilia. Othello (1951) Fay Compton as Emilia. (3. Given the social constraints on women, it’s up to the husband to ensure their satisfaction, materially and sexually, and if they don’t, women can’t be blamed for having affairs (Emilia herself might have had an affair with Othello). IAGO: I hate the Moor,/And it is thought abroad that ’twixt my sheets/He’s done my office. BRABANTIO: with some mixtures powerful o’er the blood/Or with some dram, conjured to this effect,/He wrought upon her. Othello: “My services which I have done the signiory / Shall out-tongue his complaints”Othello: “My parts, my title and my perfect soul”Duke: “Valiant Othello”Othello to Brabantio: “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them / Good signior, you shall more command with years / Than with your weapons”Othello: “From year to year: the battle, siege, fortune / That I have passed”Othello: “She’s come again, and with a greedy ear”Duke: “I think this tale would win my daughter too”Othello: “She’s like a liar gone to burning hell / ‘Twas I that killed her” – admits to the murder himself, too proud to let a ‘w.h.o.r.e’ lie for him.Othello reassuring himself: “I’ll see before I doubt”Othello before killing Desdemona: “Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men / Put out the light, and then put out the light”Othello: “Here is my journey’s end” – still speaking as if he is a hero.Othello: “An honourable murderer” “For nought I did in hate, but all in honour” – still a proud man despite his terrible actions.Othello: “Of one that loved not wisely but too well”Othello: “Killing myself, to die upon a kiss”. Farewell” – Final words are lying for Othello’s sake to Emilia that she wasn’t killed by him. IAGO: Her honor is an essence that’s not seen,/They have it very oft that have it not. She (Desdemona), beautiful, was quite happy in her innocence, and marriage (and sex) was the last thing on her mind, even to one of the primped and pampered rich lads of the nation. Desdemona says this to Othello and Emilia. He suggests that people’s reputations are hard to assess and often people don’t deserve their reputations. They belch us” ... othello quotes. Othello: “O curse of marriage!” – straight after these doubts emerge in himself.Othello: “Had it pleased heaven / To try me with affliction” – links to tragic fate. OTHELLO: Thy bed, lust-stain’d, shall with lust’s blood be spotted. Ha! Lodovico: “Is this the noble Moor” “Are his wits safe?” – Othello is losing his reputation and he is completely unaware of it.Othello: “She was false as water”Emilia to Othello: “Thou art rash as fire”, IAGO is the engine of the play and masterfully thinks of many villainous plans, which are all successful, and he has skill in persuasion and trickery. Goes on to say: “Till I am evened with him, wife for wife”Iago: “Now, whether he kill Cassio / Or Cassio him… Every way makes my gain” – Iago finds himself in a win, win situation in getting Roderigo to attack Cassio. Quote: “Tis not a year or two shows us a man: / They are all but stomachs and we all but food: / They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, / They belch us.” Analysis : Emilia uses an extended metaphor to voice her disgust toward men, comparing men to stomachs and women to belched food. O ’ er the blood/Or with some dram, conjured to this effect, wrought. 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