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Othello Act 4 Scene 2

Lines 49-57

Line 29-32:

OTHELLO

(to EMILIA) Some of your function, mistress,

Leave procreants alone and shut the door.

Cough or cry “hem” if any body come.

Your mystery, your mystery! Nay, dispatch!

Line 30-46

But, alas, to make me

The fixèd figure for the time of scorn

To point his slow and moving finger at!

Yet could I bear that too, well, very well.

Othello says here that though he wouldn't prefer it, he'd rather be the laughingstock of time - he's saying he would rather be someone that went down in history as a joke rather than as a cuckold

OTHELLO:

    Had it pleased heaven

To try me with affliction, had they rained

All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head,

Steeped me in poverty to the very lips,

Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,

I should have found in some place of my soul

A drop of patience.

Here, Othello is listing all the things that would be better than being a cuckold

Line 1 - 12

Line 34-37 "Come, swear it; damn thyself; Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves Should fear to seize thee. Therefore be double-damn'd: Swear thou art honest."

- Othello is accusing Desdemona of being disloyal towards him

- He tells Desdemona she should continue to call herself his loyal wife, so that when she goes to hell the devils will know she's lied

- He is blinded by anger, caused by Iago and no longer has any belief that Desdemona is innocent

- Though he lacks hard evidence, Iago has successfully manipulated Othello into believing that Desdemona has been unfaithful

  • Othello is very disrespectful to Emilia in this line, and to Desdemona too
  • he implies that Emilia's job is to make sure that people who are "doing it" dont get caught.. peole who are not supposed to be doing it
  • its disrespectful to Desdemona because Emilia's job is to be Desdemona's lady in waiting, so what Othello is saying is that Emilia helps Desdemona do things with other people without getting caught
  • scene 1 ends with Iago telling Othello to take his situation like a man
  • Othello has lost his self-confidence (since telling Iago that he'll believe it when he sees it) and is losing respect from the audience through this change in his mindset
  • scene 2 begins with Emilia and Othello
  • Othello is questioning her about Desdemona, if Emilia has seen her with Cassio or heard a conversation, or seen them alone:

"OTHELLO: What, did they never whisper?

EMILIA: Never, my lord.

OTHELLO: Nor send you out o' th' way?

EMILIA: Never.

OTHELLO: To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?

EMILIA: Never, my lord."

  • At the end of scene 1, Othello is convinced that Desdemona is unfaithful to him
  • In the beginning of this scene, it seems like he's still looking for more proof

But there where I have garnered up my heart,

Where either I must live or bear no life,

The fountain from the which my current runs

Or else dries up—to be discarded thence!

Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads

To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,

Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin,—

Ay, there, look grim as hell!

He believes his fate is wore because his wife, the one that would helpcontinue his bloodline has become impure. He says she was like a pure fountain from which his babies could have come from, but she has polluted it and made it bad.

Line 41-46

"las, the heavy day! Why do you weep? Am I the motive of these tears, my lord? If haply you my father do suspect an instrument of this your calling back, Lay not your blame on me. If you have lost him, I have lost him too.

It seems in this paragraph that he is more upet about the fact that she is "polluting herself" rather than the implications of what that means. He seems to be more upset about losing an object that is his than about losing the love of Desdemona. This can be concluded because he doesnt mention anything about love in that quote - its all about not having his children with her.

-Desdemona does not know why Othello Is upset with her

-She does not retaliate though Othello is angry with her for seemingly no reason

-Desdemona represents the goodness in everything and she is demonstrating the ideal and 'good' obedient wife

- She asks Othello that if he's upset because of her or her father.

- She says that if it's because of Brabantio, to not blame her, for she is with Othello and has also lost her father's respect

Lines 12-17

"I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,

Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other

Remove your thought, it doth abuse your bosom."

-It is sort of weird how Shakespeare created Emilia to be such a kind person when she is married to the play's villain.

-She is willing to bet her own life on Desdemona honesty

Line 19-23

Why is she married to Iago????

"She says enough, yet she’s a simple bawd

That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,

A closet, lock and key, of villainous secrets.

And yet she’ll kneel and pray, I have seen her do ’t."

  • This is when Othello is by himself after he has already told Emilia to go fetch Desdemona
  • He is stating how anyone would believe Emilia's testimony of how innocent Desdemona is
  • Also, "inconspicious whore" means that she is a whore who is trying to make her acts of infidelity seem non-existent
  • Othello thinks that Emilia is very untrustworthy by saying things like "she's a simple bawd" - which means she is unintelligent
  • He then goes on to say "This is a subtle whore,A closet, lock and key, of villainous secrets.And yet she’ll kneel and pray, I have seen her do ’t."
  • He is letting the jealousy get to him

Othello

Act 4 scene 2, line 1-65

by: The LGs a.k.a Toni, Katie, and Kiran

  • -He has no proof that Desdemona actually cheated, he is going by the information that Iago gave him
  • He was already convinced at the end of scene 1 that Desdemona was hating on him, so why did he need to ask Emilia all of these questions?
  • This is his "Seeing and believing", though he is actually not seeing anything, but completely twisting what he is hearing.

Line 16-17

Line 16-17 "If any wretch have put this in your head

Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse"

-When Emilia is saying this, she means that whoever decided to plant these things in Othello's head about how horrible a person Desdemona is, they deserves the same punishment that Jesus gave to the serpent because he deceived Eve.

^ allusion to the bible!!!

-Emilia doesn't know that the person who deceived Othello was Iago.... OH NO!!!

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