OTHELLO – William Shakespeare (published 1565) CASSIO. It hath the devil drunkenness pleased to give place to the devil wrath; one unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself. IAGO. Come, you are too severe a moraler: as the time, the place, and the condition of this country stands, I could heartily wish this had not befallen; but, since it is as it is, mend it for your own good.
Comment [j1]: Consonance: the d sounds
Comment [j2]: hyperbaton
Comment [A3]: Consonnance: the “S” Comment [A4]: Asyndenton
CASSIO. I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Comment [j5]: sarcasm Comment [A6]: Simile Illusion alluding to Hydra Comment [j7]: antithesis Comment [A8]: Apostrophoie Comment [A9]: Personifi cation and Metaphor
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.
Comment [j10]: personi fication Comment [j11]: delay ed senten ce
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, for that he hath devoted and given up himself to the contemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts and graces: confess yourself freely to her; importune her help to put you in your place again: she is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested: this broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to splinter; and, my fortunes against any lay worth naming, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before. CASSIO. You advise me well.
Comment [j12]: PLOT Comment [A13]: Historical Connotation Comment [j14]: Trans wds
Comment [A15]: Anaphora Comment [A16]: Eufony Comment [j17]: ch aracterization Comment [j18]: an alogy Comment [j19]: euphemism Comment [A20]: Irony
IAGO. I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness. CASSIO. I think it freely; and betimes in the morning I will beseech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me: I am desperate of my fortunes if they cheque me here.
Comment [j21]: ch aracterization
IAGO. You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant; I must to the watch.
Comment [j22]: internal rhyme
CASSIO: Good night, honest Iago.
Comment [A23]: Trafi c Flaw -
OTHELLO – William Shakespeare (published 1565) IAGO. I do beseech you-Though I perchance am vicious in my guess, As, I confess, it is my nature's plague To 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 trouble Out 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.
Comment [PM24]: Arch aic Di ction
OTHELLO. What dost thou mean?
Comment [PM33]: Asyndeton
Comment [j25]: hyperbaton Comment [PM26]: Connotation: Human Nature / Sylogism Comment [j27]: ch aracterization Comment [PM28]: Characterization Comment [j29]: anthro Comment [PM30]: Litote Comment [PM31]: Alliteration: Assonance Comment [PM32]: Delay ed senten ce & amplification
Comment [j34]: Delay ed senten ce
IAGO. Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel 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.
Comment [PM35]: Arch aic Di ction
OTHELLO. By heaven, I'll know thy thoughts.
Comment [PM42]: Contradiction
Comment [j36]: thesis Comment [j37]: theme: reputation Comment [j38]: epithet Comment [PM39]: Metaphors Comment [PM40]: Alliteration: Consonance Comment [j41]: expletive
Comment [PM43]: Apostrophe, Colloquial
IAGO. You cannot, if my heart were in your hand; Nor shall not, whilst 'tis in my custody.
Comment [PM44]: Foreshadow
OTHELLO. Ha!
Comment [j45]: ex clamation
IAGO. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss Who, 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!
Comment [j46]: epithet Comment [PM47]: Analogy, connotation, allusion to 7 deadly sins Comment [PM48]: Cacophony Comment [PM49]: Allusion Comment [PM50]: Contradiction Comment [PM51]: Asyndeton
OTHELLO. O misery! IAGO. Poor and content is rich and rich enough, But riches fineless is as poor as winter To him that ever fears he shall be poor. Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!
Comment [j52]: Consonance:T sounds Comment [PM53]: Thesis Comment [PM54]: Apostrophe Comment [j55]: juxtaposition Comment [PM56]: Simile
OTHELLO – William Shakespeare (published 1565) IAGO. And did you see the handkerchief?
Comment [PM58]: Motif, Cultural context: courting, Symbolic: Othello’s love
OTHELLO. Was that mine? IAGO. Yours by this hand: and to see how he prizes the Foolish 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.
Comment [PM59]: Invective, Synecdoch e, Social context Comment [j60]: hyperbole
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 to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand. O, the world hath not a sweeter creature: she might lie by an emperor's side and command him tasks.
Comment [PM61]: Foreshadow!
IAGO. Nay, that's not your way.
Comment [j65]: Intern al rhyme
OTHELLO. Hang her! I do but say what she is: so delicate with her needle: an admirable musician: O! she will sing the savageness out of a bear: of so high and plenteous wit and invention:--
Comment [j66]: invective
Comment [j62]: litote Comment [PM63]: Bibliomancy Comment [PM64]: Hyperbole and imagery
Comment [j67]: hyperbole Comment [j68]: ch aracterizatio
IAGO. She's the worse for all this. OTHELLO. O, a thousand thousand times: and then, of so gentle a condition!
Comment [PM69]: Anadiplosis
IAGO. Ay, too gentle.
Comment [j71]: Consonance: T sound
OTHELLO. Nay, that's certain: but yet the pity of it, Iago! O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!
Comment [j70]: Trans wd
Comment [PM72]: Connotation Comment [j73]: rep etition
IAGO. If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend; for, if it touch not you, it comes near nobody.
Comment [j74]: hyperbaton
OTHELLO. I will chop her into messes: cuckold me!
Comment [PM76]: Cacophony
Comment [j75]: juxtaposition
IAGO. O, 'tis foul in her. OTHELLO . With mine officer! IAGO. That's fouler. OTHELLO. Get me some poison, Iago; this night: I'll not expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again: this night, Iago.
Comment [j77]: Repetition: this night iago
IAGO. Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated.
Comment [PM78]: Euphemism
OTHELLO. Good, good: the justice of it pleases: very good.
Comment [PM79]: Repetition
IAGO. And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker: you shall hear more by midnight. OTHELLO. Excellent good.
Comment [j80]: anthropomorphism Comment [PM81]: Connotation: Killer Comment [PM82]: Periphrasis
