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Othello Quotes (Act 4) Kim/Kriger

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Her honor is an essence that's not seen;/They have it very oft that have it not.
Iago
(Things are not always what they seem)
othello
Work on,/My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught,/And many worthy and chaste dames are even thus,/All guiltless, meet reproach
Iago
(he had poisoned Othello and was patting himself on the back)
himself
everyone is falling for his scheme
For I will make him tell the tale anew-/Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when/He hath and is again to cope your wife.
Iago
(he's going to trick Othello into thinking that Cassio is sleeping with Desdemona at a certain time)
there is no relationship, but he will make cassio recount a fake tale
manipulating bitch
If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,/Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Othello
(You can cry all day and all night, and I still won't believe you're sad)
everything is false
If any wretch have put this in your head,/Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse!
Emilia
(She didn't know Iago was behind it)
othello
damning whoever influenced him so
Oh thou weed,/Who art so lovely and smell'st so sweet/That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born
Othello
(insulting Desdemona by comparing her to a weed that pretends to be a flower)
fool
If any such there be, Heaven pardon him!/A halter pardon him! And Hell gnaw his bones!
Desdemona (forgives rumor-spreader)
Emilia (hates rumor-spreader which is her husband)
difference in social class and women
Faith, I have heard too much, and your words and performances are no kin together.
Roderigo
(starting to distrust Iago)
iago
10% done
The world's a huge thing. It is a great price/for a small vice
Emilia
(she'd do it, but only for a reward for Iago)
highlight difference in social class women
not completely loyal to husband
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
Emilia
(We learn from men)
sins she commits are because of her husband
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