Use this post to share a line or two from Othello that you find particularly profound, cool, funny, or interesting. Explain.
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while skimming the play to find a good line to post, i came across a line spoken by Cassio describing Desdemona. "Indeed, she's a most fresh and delicate creature." although the line may seem random, i couldn't help but relate it back to my own life. if i was to ever describe someone, i would most defiantly not use the description "fresh and delicate". when people in todays life describe someone, it is usually done by people saying, "oh, she's cool." or, "oh, she's pretty." the way the times have changed scene Shakespeare is just remarkable.
Also, this line stood out for me because the way Cassio described Desdemona seems a little bit too affectionate. i don't know if that was common at those times, but to me it seemed like he didn't just "like" her.
In Othello, there was one conversation that struck out at me. It was an exchange between Desdemona and a Clown. I actually found their exchange amusing. It went as follows:
Desdemona: Excuse me, do you know which room Lieutenant Cassio lies in?
Clown: I wouldn’t dare say he lies anywhere.
Desdemona:Why do you say that?
Clown:He’s a soldier. If I accused a soldier of lying, he’d stab me.
I enjoyed this line for multiple reasons. For one, I enjoyed the clowns excellent usage of puns.He did a great job completely twisting Desdemona's lines. Also, I found it amusing that a common clown was able to outwit, at least in a sense, a common clown. Finally, I thought it was very ironic they way Shakespeare incorporated a clown into an epic story of war and lies.
One line that struck me as funny was when Cassio says "I am not drunk. This is my ancoent, this is my right hand, and this is my left. I am not drunk now. I can syand well enough, and I speak well enough....You must not think then that I am drunk." I thought it was funny because he clearly is drunk. but still believes that he is sober. The movie of Othello illustrates this better than the book does. Cassio has trouble standing up straight while he was trying to tell everyone that he was not drunk, then stumbles off. Becuase of how delirious Cassio gets when he is drunk, Iago set him up perfectly to have Othello fire him.
In Act Two, on page 50, i thought it was interesting when Iago asked Cassio if he was hurt (said in a way that he meant physically injured), and Cassio replies "Ay. beyond all surgery". Iago becomes rather disturbed and exclaims "Marry, God Forbid!!" Cassio, in turn, then cries out "Reputation, reputation, reputation!", and goes on to complain about how his life is absolutely ruined because of this. I thought this was pretty interesting because this, if not written in Shakespearean English, could even be something said today. This just shows how far ahead shakespeare was ahead of his time. He used the stereotype of the whiny clingy friend to illustrate this. I also found it slightly comical, since Cassio managed to twist around Iago's words to exaggerate just how "hurt" he was.
During class as we were looking at certain lines for different characters, I came across one that Othello was saying about Iago after he told him that there was something going on between Casio and Desdemona. He says, "This honest creature doubtless sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds" (66). I found this to be interesting because it seems as if Othello feels that Iago is an honest person but at the same time he knows that he carries around with him a lot of important information that he wishes to keep to himself. Although Othello knows that Iago may be up to something or that he knows a lot of information, Othello still believes he is an honest man. He feels that there is more to Iago then what he decides to share with people. This makes me wonder how things will go down later on between Iago and Othello.
On Page 5, Act 1 Scene 1, Iago says “…But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at; I am not what I am”
This line somewhat describes most of who Iago is. When he says “I am not what I am”, he means that he is very tricky. He comes off to be someone, but is in fact someone completely different. Iago cannot be trusted and should be questioned, but of course the characters are unaware of this. Even though he also says in this line that he will wear his heart upon his sleeve, I don’t believe that it is his true feelings.
I find this line very interesting because it almost contradicts itself. Iago is extremely developed and round character, and this line shows the way he is throughout the story.
A line that I found in Oedipus was "I hope you consider what is spoke." I thought this was a strange way of putting "I hope you think about what I said." It shows how language has dramatically changed since Shakespeare and since Othello was written. I thought this is a very dramatic way of saying something so simple. That sums up how Shakespeare was written and how the modern day language is quick, simple, and to the point. Nothing is as close to dramatic as that line was.
This line was very dramatic way of saying something so simple. I wish that we still talked as dramatic as they did in shakespeare time. It was very elegant and wasn't easy to understand. Shakespearean language also gave meaning and thought to very unimportant things.
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