https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k Othello Theme Tracker en-us 2018-11-21 15:08:56 UTC 2018-12-13 20:54:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/306763248 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. ]]> 2018-11-21 15:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/306763248 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/306763249 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.


]]> 2018-11-21 15:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/306763249 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/306763250 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.  ]]> 2018-11-21 15:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/306763250 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/306763251 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.  ]]> 2018-11-21 15:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/306763251 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/309806534 After Iago arrives in Cyprus, once Roderigo leaves, he starts to explain his evil plan, He states, "For that I do suspect the lusty Moor/Hath leaped into my seat. The thought whereof/ Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards,/And nothing can or shall content my soul/Till I am evened with him, wife for wife." (2.1.289-293) The fact that there is a rumour that Othello slept with his wife makes him loose a lot of honor. He wnts to do whatever it takes to regain it]]> 2018-11-30 15:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/309806534 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/311416204 Shortly  after arriving on the ports of Cyprus, Iago starts to explain to Roderigo his evil plan on how to use Cassio as a pupet. He states, "Lechery, by this hand, an index and obscure prologue to/ the history of lust and foul thoughts. They met so near/ with their lips that their breath bretahs embraced together./ Villanious thoughts, Roderigo! When these mutabilities/so marshal the way, hard at hand comes the master and/ main exercise, th' incoporate conclusion. "(2.1.255-260) Iago is explaining that Desdemona and Cassio look so in love. However, he is only stating lies to complete his evil plan and not what it really seems. ]]> 2018-12-05 15:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/311416204 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/311423514 After waking up a sleeping Brabantio, telling him that his daughter is marrying Othello, Iago explains to Roderigo what there revenge plan means. He declares, "Though I do hate him as I do hell pains,/Yet for necessity of present life/I must show a flag and sign of love…"(1.1.157-159) In this paragraph, it shows what Iago really thinks of Othello, and what he tries to act like, proving to us his lying personnality. ]]> 2018-12-05 15:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/311423514 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312248540 After Cassio loses his position after a drunk brawl broke out on the streets of Cyprus, he can only think about loosing his honour. He exclaimes, "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!" (2.3.250-253) Honour is a big part of this quote. Once Cassio knows that he made an error, the only thing he can think about is regaining the reputation.]]> 2018-12-07 14:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312248540 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312256764 After arriving in Cyrus, Iago explains to Roderigo how much Desdemona loves Cassio. He states "A knave very voluble, no further/conscionable than in putting on the mere from of civil and/humane seeming , for the better compassing of his salt and/most hidden loose affection. Why, none, why, none! A/slipper and subtle knave, a finder of occasions that has an /eye, can stamp and counterfeit advantages, though true/advantage never present itself. A deveilish knave. Besides,/the knave is handsome, young, and hath all those requisites/ in him that folly and green minds look after. A pestilent/ complete knave, and the woman hath found him already. "(2.1.238-247) This description of why Desdemona loves Cassio is completely false and Desdemona doesn't love Cassio what so ever. Iago is just doing this to get Roderigo all heated up and more blinded from his plan. ]]> 2018-12-07 15:05:17 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312256764 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312546077 Once Montano realizes that Cassio is drunk after a big party in the castle, Iago explaines that it's like this everynight. Iago decalres, "'Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep./ He'll watch the the horologe a double set/ If drink rock not his cradle. (2.3.115-117) In this quote, Iago is lying about Cassio's honour. He states that Cassio drink everynight, thought this isn't true.]]> 2018-12-08 19:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312546077 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312546814 After Brabantio decides to go to the Duke aftef finding out about his daughter's marriage, Brabantio decides to make Desdemona tell the truth on how she fell in love with Othello. She exclaimes, " How to respect you. You are the lord of duty./ I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband./And so much duty as my mother showed/ To you, preferring you before her father, /So much I challenge that I may profess/ Due to the Moor my lord. (1.3.184-189) This quote proves the honour and reputation a man has when he becomes a husband. The woman must respect her husband.]]> 2018-12-08 19:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312546814 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312640399 Shortly after everyone has Ieft the Duke's palace, after Desdemona stated that she is in love with Othello, Iago and Roderigo discuss their evil plan. Iago states, "I have told thee/often, and I re-tell thee again and again, I hate the Moor./My cuase is hearted.Thine hath no less Reason. Let us be/conjuctive in our revenge against him." (1.3.358-361) This quote shows how jealous Iago is of Othello. He hates Othello and will do evrything he can to get his revenge.]]> 2018-12-09 14:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312640399 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312642184 After a long conversation between Roderigo and Iago reagrding their evil plan on the dark streets of Venice, Iago tries to work out all the details. He exclaims,"To get his place and to plume up my will/In double knavery."(1.3.384-385)Iago is so jealous of Othello that doesn't only want to get the promotion that he thought was his, but also hurt Othello. ]]> 2018-12-09 15:00:42 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312642184 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312643964  On the dark streets of Venice, Roderigo complains on how Desdemona didn't marry him. Iago, then states why he hates Othello. He states, "Despise me/If I do not. Three great ones of the city/(In personal suit to make me his lieutenant)/ Off-capped to him, and by the faith of man/I know my price, I am Worth no worse a place…"I have already chose my officer."/ And what was he?/Forsooth, a great arithmetician,/ One Micheal Cassio, a Florentine… That never set a squadron in the field,...And I, bless the mark, his Moorship's ancient."(1.1.8-34) This quote explains Iago's jealousy towards Othello. Othello passed him for a promotion and chose a young, inexperienced soldier instead. ]]> 2018-12-09 15:12:13 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312643964 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312646348 After a discussion with Rodeigo on the dark streets of Vencie regarding the evil plan, Iago explains why he hates Othello. He exclaims, "I hate the Moor/And it is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets/He's done my office, I know not if't be true,/ But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,/Will do as if for surety." (1.3.377-381) Iago is jealous of Othello becuase there is a Rumor that he slept with his wife. This is fuel for Iago's revnge plan.]]> 2018-12-09 15:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312646348 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312649430 Speaking in front of the Duke, Brabantio can't believe that his daughter fell in love with Othello. He says, "By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks./For nature so prepost'rously to err,/Being not deficient, blind or lame of sense,/Sans witchcraft could not." (1.3.63-66) Brabantio believes that Othello used some kind of magic to woo Desdemona. They can't accept the fact that a Black man can manage to mary a beautiful White girl. 

Same thing, jsut another quote to prove it: 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 judgement maimed and most imperfect/ That will confess perfection so could err./ Against all rules of nature, (1.3.98-103)]]> 2018-12-09 15:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312649430 3602265 https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312653349 After Brabantio accepts the fact that Desdemona fell in love with Othello, the Duke approches him and says that your son-in-law isnt't tha bad. He declares, "And, noble signoir,/If virtue no delighted beauty lack,/ Your son-in-law is far more fair than black."(1.3.289-291) This quote shows that word black is used as an insult. Black is associated with ugliness in this insult. ]]> 2018-12-09 16:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/3602265/z7jswaszqx2k/wish/312653349