https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz Othello theme tracker en-us 2018-11-20 15:10:49 UTC 2025-12-09 21:52:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/306383752 On the dark streets of Venice, Iago is telling his puppet Roderigo about his 2-faced nature. Iago explains,  "I follow him to serve my turn upon him. ... Others there are who, trimmed in forms and visages of duty, keep their hearts attending on themselves and, throwing but shows of service on their lords, do well thrive by them. ... I AM NOT WHAT I AM"   
(Shakespeare, 1.1.44-67)

Explanation:  to Iago tries to reassure Roderigo that he is actually pretending to be loyal to Othello so that he can eventually find a way to destroy his new marriage. ]]> 2018-11-20 15:10:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/306383752 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/306383753 Brabantio has just realized that his fair, young daughter is missing and he is slowly starting to believe what Roderigo (Iago) is telling him.    Brabantio complains to Roderigo,  “oh heaven, how got she out? Oh treason of the blood! Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds by what you see them act. Is there not charms by which the property of youth and maidhood may be abused?? “ (Shakespeare, I, i, 172-175)

Explanation: Brabantio thinks of his daughter as his property. He is shocked that his own daughter would betray a powerful, noble man like himself. He is afraid that his reputation will be damaged by this betrayal.


]]> 2018-11-20 15:10:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/306383753 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/306383755 From the dark streets of Venice, Iago and Rodrigo wake up the senator with shocking news.     In an attempt to damage the reputation of Othello and infuriate the senator, Iago shouts up to Brabantio,  "... you have lost half of your soul.  Even now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe. ... you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse.  You'll have your nephews neigh to you"   
(Shakespeare, 1.1.89-91 and 114-116)

Explanation: This shows Iago’s racist attitude towards Othello.   He uses animal imagery to make true love and an honest, loving sexual encounter between Othello and Desdemona seem bestial, violent, and nasty.  ]]> 2018-11-20 15:10:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/306383755 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/306383756 2.  A Context (who is in the quote? Where? When?)
4.   The quote... written in Shakespeare’s words
5.   Reference:  (Shakespeare, 1.2.45)
6.   Explanation of the link between the quote and the theme.  (***most important part***)]]> 2018-11-20 15:10:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/306383756 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209762 Talking to Brabantio about Desdemona and Othello : "Even now, now, very now, an old black ram /
Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise; /
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell, /
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you. /
Arise I say!" (Shakespeare, 1.1.91-95) 

Associating the devil to black people as well ]]> 2018-12-10 23:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209762 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209783 Cyprus, Iago and Desdemona discuss

"There's none so foul and foolish thereunto, / But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do. " (Shakespeare. 2.1.150-51)]]> 2018-12-10 23:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209783 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209814 Othello making his case for his love for Desdemona : "My story being done, /
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. /
She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing 
   strange, /
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.
She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished /
That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked 
   me, /
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, /
I should but teach him how to tell my story, /
And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake. /
She loved me for the dangers I had passed, /
And I loved her that she did pity them." (Shakespeare, 1.3.159-69)

Explanation : An interpretation could be that Desdemona wishes she were a man so she can go to war. She is so captivated by Othello's stories not due to her attraction to him  but because of her envy of an adventurous life that was not suited for women (as decided back then). ]]> 2018-12-10 23:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209814 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209834 Iago goes to see Brabantio and tell him all about Othello and Desdemona : "Awake! What 🤬, Brabantio! Thieves, thieves! /
Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags! /
Thieves, thieves"  (Shakespeare, 1.1.81-83)

Explanation : Iago refers to Desdemona as the stolen item. This is prejudice against women who did not have their own identity, they were their father's property (misogyny). ]]> 2018-12-10 23:39:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209834 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209881 Iago's soliloquy after Roderigo leaves : "But partly led to diet my revenge, / For that I do suspect the lusty Moor / Hath leaped into my seat" ( Shakespeare, 2.1.288-90)

Explanation : Relationship jealousy is very common as well. This type of jealousy forms his revenge on Othello. ]]> 2018-12-10 23:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209881 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209896 After the party, where Iago and Roderigo put their plan to action he states : "I do follow here in the chase not like a hound that hunts / but one that fills up the cry" (Shakespeare, 2.3.343-44)

Explanation : A type of jealousy very common among humans is love jealousy. Roderigo is jealous of the attention that Othello and Cassio are getting from Desdemona. What happens afterwards which is very normal for love jealousy, is the plan not working out and feeling down ( jealousy doesn't attract the love one)]]> 2018-12-10 23:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209896 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209923 When finding out he didn't get the position he wanted "I hate the Moor,/ [...] Let us be / conjunctive in our revenge against him" (Shakespeare, 1.3.359 and 360-1)

Explanation : Iago's jealousy leads to him seeking revenge as the only way for him to be satisfied. Iago is jealous of the position he didn't get and the honour associated with it. ]]> 2018-12-10 23:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209923 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209956 At the party, drunk Cassio fights Montano and gets hurt, Iago asks : What are you hurt, lieutenant? (Shakespeare, 2.3.247)

Explanantion : Iago pretends to be concerned for Cassio and it is all part of Iago' s plan. He's pretending to care when (appearance vs reality).]]> 2018-12-10 23:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209956 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209995 (Same context) "Thus do I ever make my fool my purse" (Shakespeare, 1.3.374)

Explanation: Iago thinks that Roderigo is a fool and that it can be used to Iago's advantage. It appears that Iago is giving him good advice to sell his land (and therefore Desdemona will fall for him...) but in reality Iago wants to steal his money. ]]> 2018-12-10 23:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313209995 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313210024 After Iago gives what seems to be good advice to Cassio, Cassio leaves and Iago states : When devils will the blackest sins put on / They do suggest at first with heavenly shows As do I now" (Shakespeare, 2.3.331-33)

Explanation : Iago giving advice to Michael Cassio seems as though he is helping him, but deep down it's just a a part of Iago's evil plan. ]]> 2018-12-10 23:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313210024 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313210161 After Brabantio explains his case to the Duke, Othello  describes his honest relationship with Desdemona : "She loved me for the dangers I had passed" (Shakespeare, 1.3.168)

Explanation : Othello's honour is very important because, without hit, he wouldn't be respected due to his race, let alone marry Desdemona (OR PAGE46) . Desdemona was attracted by Othello's honour, reputation and manhood. ]]> 2018-12-10 23:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313210161 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313210180 Following Iago's discussion with Roderigo to get revenge on Othello : "Cassio's a proper man. Let me see now, / To get his place and to plume up my will/ In double knavery, How? How? Let's see" (Shakespeare, 1.3.383-84).

Explanation: When Michael Cassio got the lieutenant job instead of Iago, Iago felt as though his honour, manhood and repuation was diminished. If he got that higher ranking job, he would have a higher honour. Because of this, Iago makes out a whole plan to seek revenge on Othello for depriving him of such honour and also to find a way to get that job and that high status. ]]> 2018-12-10 23:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313210180 nalingc19 https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313210201 A part of Iago's plot consists of getting Cassio drunk at the party. When Cassio indeed gets humiliated he states : "Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my / reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and / what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my / reputation! (Shakespeare, 2.3.250-54) 

Explanation : Cassio thinks that one's reputation is what makes them human. By getting drunk, he didn't keep up his goof reputation and therefore lost his honour. ]]> 2018-12-10 23:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nalingc19/i8g2mve967nz/wish/313210201