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Key themes - Coggle Diagram
Key themes
Jealousy
Iago warns Othello, "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on" (Act 3, scene 3)
He further manipulates Othello's by saying, "Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ" (Act 3, scene 3)
Emilia reflects on jealousy, stating, "They are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they are jealous" (Act 4, scene 3)
Othello laments, "O curse of marriage! That we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!" (Act 3. scene 3)
Iago observes, "The Moor already changes with my poison" (Act 3, scene 3)
Othello's rage is evident when he declares, "I will chop her into messes. Cuckhold me!" (Act 4. scene 1)
Race and Discrimination
Iago crudely describes Othello, "Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe" (act 1, scene 1)
He suspects Othello, "for that I do suspect the lusty moor hath leaped into my seat!"(Act 2, scene 1)
Othello reflects on his insecurities, "Haply, for I am black and have not these soft parts of conversation that chatterers have" (Act 3, scene 3)
The Duke pressures Brabantio, "your son-in-law is far more fair than black" (act 1, scene 3)
Othello laments, "Her name, that was as fresh as Dian's visage is now begrimed and black as mine own face" (Act 3, scene 3)
Othello calls for vegance, "Arise black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!" (Act 3, scene 3)
Love and Betrayal
Othello recounts his love story, "She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them" (Act 1, scene 3)
Desdemona defends Othello, "My noble Moor is true of mind and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are" (Act 4, scene 2)
Othello curses marriage, "O curse of marriage! That we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!" (Act 3, scene 3)
In his final moments, Othello says "I kissed thee ere, I killed thee: no way but this; killing myself, to die upon a kiss" (Act 5, scene 2)
Desdemona protests, "I have not deserved this" (Act 4, scene 1)
Emilia asserts, "I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak" (Act 5, scene 2)
Manipulation
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He describes Othello's trusting nature, "The Moor... thinks men honest that but seems to be so. and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are" (Act 1, scene 3)
Iago questions his own villainary, "And what's he then that say I play the villain? When this advice is free I give and honest" (Act 2, scene 3)
He repeatedly advises Rodrigo to "Put money in thy purse" (Act 1, scene 3)
Iago plans to exploit Desdemona's goodness, "so will I turn her virtue into pitch" (Act 2, scene 3)
He admits, "I follow him to serve my turn upon him" (Act 1, scene 1)