https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk Othello theme tracker en-us 2018-11-27 16:44:58 UTC 2018-12-10 00:25:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/308378549 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"   
(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. ]]> 2018-11-27 16:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/308378549 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/308378550 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?? “ (1.1. 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.


]]> 2018-11-27 16:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/308378550 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/308378551 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"   
( 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.  ]]> 2018-11-27 16:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/308378551 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/308378552 1. Context  ( Who? Where? When?)
2.   The quote... written in Shakespeare’s words (Early Modern English)
5.   Reference:  (1.2.45)
6.   Explanation of the link between the quote and the theme.  ]]> 2018-11-27 16:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/308378552 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312459718 After Iago's ship arrives to Cyprus, he notices that Cassio was holding Desdemona's hand and he has the idea to get revenge on Othello by making him believe that there's something going on between Desdemona and Cassio.

''Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me /For making him egregiously an ass /And practicing upon his peace and quiet'' (2.1.302-304)

Iago's way of revenge is to act fake towards Othello and pretend like he loves him just so he gets rewarded.

]]> 2018-12-08 03:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312459718 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312582953 Iago has arrived to Cyprus and Othello is talking abouut how happy he is with Desdemona.

'' Oh you are well tuned now/But I'll set down the pegs that make this music/As honest as I am.'' (2.1.203-204)

Iago knows he has to stay in Othello's good side in order for him to believe him even if he has to pretend to be honest. This is his plan to get revenge.]]> 2018-12-09 04:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312582953 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312583552 Iago talks to Roderigo and tells him he knows how to get him to be with Desdemona.

''The Moor is of a free and open nature/That thinks men honest that but seem to be so/And will as tenderly be led by th’ nose /As asses are.'' (1.3.390-393)

Iago's plan to get revenge is to act like someone he's not to trick Othello to trust his words and make it seem like he's loyal.]]> 2018-12-09 04:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312583552 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312584756 Iago gets Cassio drunk which makes him get in a fight with Montano and as a consequence, he loses his job.

‘’Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!" (2.3.250-254)

This was Iago's plan to make Michael Cassio look bad, and ruin his reputation that is very important to him. Iago was unhappy that Cassio got the job instead of him.]]> 2018-12-09 04:43:26 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312584756 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312585246 Brabantio finds out that Othello and Desdemona ran away and he is mad about the decision his daughter has made.

''O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!/ Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds/ By what you see them act.'' (1.1. 172-174)

Brabantio feels betrayed by his own blood because his identity as a father means that Desdemona has to obey to what he says and she has to consult him before making a decision.]]> 2018-12-09 04:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312585246 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312585737 Iago and Roderigo go to Brabantio's house to tell him that Desdemona and Othello ran away and got married so he gets mad at them.

''Because we come to do you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse, you'll have your nephews neigh to you, you'll have coursers for cousins and jennets for germans.'' (1.1.113-117)

Iago uses animal imagery an Othello's race to inform Brabantio that his daughter ran away with him because back then, it wasn't well seen for a white person to be with a black person.]]> 2018-12-09 05:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312585737 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312586917 In Venice, Brabantio is in disbelief that Desdemona ran away with Othello.

''And she, in spite of nature,/ Of years, of country, credit, everything,/ To fall in love with what she feared to look on?/ It is a judgment maimed and most imperfect/ That will confess perfection so could err.'' (1.3.100-103)

Brabantio doesn't believe that Desdemona actually loves Othello because of his skin color and because it wasn't normal at the time.]]> 2018-12-09 05:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312586917 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312728171 Iago talks to Othello in Venice about his marriage and if he is sure that it's secure because Brabantio will try to cancel it.

''Let him do his spite./ My services which I have done the signiory/Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know-/ Which, when I know that boasting is an honor,/ I shall promulgate.'' (1.2.18-20)

Othello explains that he's done so much for the Venetian government and that Brabantio's complaints won't matter. The fact that he comes from a royal family helps him.]]> 2018-12-09 22:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312728171 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312731658 Iago is planning to get Cassio drunk during the celebration to get revenge and he is talking to himself.

''Three lads of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits/ (That hold their honors in a wary distance,/ The very elements of this warlike isle)'' (2.3.49-51)

Iago knows that honor is very important and by him ruining others' honour, they will look bad.]]> 2018-12-09 23:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312731658 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312732630 Iago arrives to Cyprus and tells Roderigo that he noticed that Cassio touched Desdemona's hand and promises him to help him.

''Now, I do love her too,/Not out of absolute lust-though peradventure/ I stand accountant for as great a sin-/ But partly led to diet my revenge,/For that I do suspect the lusty Moor/ Hath leaped into my seat.'' (2.1.285-290)

Iago is getting jealous because he is convinced that Othello has slept with his wife and feels the need to get revenge.]]> 2018-12-09 23:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312732630 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312732649 Iago explains to Roderigo that he thinks it is unfair how someone like Michael Cassio was chosen for the job instead of him.

''One Michael Cassio, a Florentine/ [... ] That never set a squadron in the field,/But he, sir had th' election'' (1.1.21-27)

Iago gets jealous and thinks he deserved the job more because Cassio is inexperienced compared to him.]]> 2018-12-09 23:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312732649 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312735123 Iago is in Venice and wants to get revenge on Othello because he thinks that he has slept with his wife Emilia.

''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./ After some time, to abuse Othello's ear/ That he is too familiar with his wife./He hath a person and a smooth dispose/To be suspected, framed to make women false.'' (1.3. 383-389)

Iago's jealousy leads to him wanting to get revenge by making him believe the same thing Iago has believed which is to make it seem like his wife, Desdemona is cheating on him.]]> 2018-12-09 23:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312735123 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312735861 Iago starts the problem by informing Brabantio that his daughter ran away with Othello.

'''I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter / and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.” (1.1.119-120)

Iago wants Othello to be on Desdemona's father's bad side so their marriage doesn't succeed.]]> 2018-12-09 23:51:28 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312735861 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312736563 Iago is talking to Desdemona about Emilia and about how annoying she is.

''Come on, come on. You are pictures out of door, bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens, saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.''

Iago implies that all women are the same and do the same thing. He complains that they don't take their job as housewives seriously. This tells us that women are only useful in the household.]]> 2018-12-09 23:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312736563 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312737308 Desdemona's father is mad and upset that he wasn't aware that Desdemona ran away with Othello in Venice right after Iago and Roderigo talk to him.

''O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!/ Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds/ By what you see them act. '' (1.1. 172-174)

This is to show how women had to consult their father or husband before making a decision. They weren't able to control their own lives.]]> 2018-12-10 00:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312737308 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312737741 Brabantio is talking to Othello and since Desdemona disappointed him, he tells Othello that she will disappoint him too.

''Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see./ She has deceived her father, and may thee.''(1.3.333-334)

Brabantio thinks that if his daughter disobeyed him, she will also disobey her husband which was something that wasn't common for women to do.]]> 2018-12-10 00:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312737741 36007071 https://padlet.com/36007071/v27qkl45lakk/wish/312738516 Iago wakes up Brabantio in Venice to tell him that his daughter is missing.

''Awake! What ho, Brabantio!/ Thieves, thieves! / Look to your house, your daughter, and your bags!/ Thieves, thieves!''(1.1.86-88)

Iago says that there are theives because Desdemona was ''stolen'' from him because she belongs to her father, and the ''theif'' is Othelloé

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