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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Monday, April 1, 2013
Othello: Close reading/analysis of a line
Choose one of the following quotations and respond to it. First, paraphrase what the quote is saying in your own words. Next, comment on the language that is used in the quote--consider connotations of words and how these connotations may have larger significance within the play.
Cassio: I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
2.3.282-83
Cassio: O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
2.3.308-10
Iago: She holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested.
2.3.340-41
Iago: When devils will the blackest sins put on, / They do suggest at first with heavenly shows.
2.3.371-72
Cassio: I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
2.3.282-83
Cassio: O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
2.3.308-10
Iago: She holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested.
2.3.340-41
Iago: When devils will the blackest sins put on, / They do suggest at first with heavenly shows.
2.3.371-72
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