Othello Quotes Location

“Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away” To what extent is the outcome of the play down to Othello’s actions and to what extent does he fit Aristotle’s model of a tragic hero?

Introduction - Summarise Othello’s actions and the nature of tragedy

Othello did not choose Iago to be his officer
Act 1 Scene 1 11-13
End of Act 3 Scene 4

Othello murders Desdemona
Act 5 Scene 2 6-10

Othello being too old and black for Desdemona
Act 3 Scene 3 – 230-240
Act 1 Scene 3 95-100

Othello is too trusting
Any quote about honest Iago
Act 3 Scene 3 – 120-140

Sacking of Cassio
Act 2 Scene 3 – 230

Gullible
Act 4 Scene 1 – Beginning of – Iago’s graphic imagery
Act 3 Scene 3 – Any of it really

Anger
Act 3 Scene 3 – 475-480
Act 4 Scene 1 – 230

Too Trusting
Act 3 Scene 3 – 120-140


Iago plans it
Act 1 Scene 1 – 40-45
Act 1 Scene 3 – 365 – 385
Act 2 Scene 1 – End of

Desdemona and Cassio
Act 3 Scene 3 – 1-20
Act 3 Scene 3 – 60-73

Roderigo
Act 2 Scene 3 – 335-345
Act 4 Scene 2 – 171-235

Cassio’s Drinking
Act 2 Scene 3 11-45

Emelia and the handkerchief
Act 3 Scene 3 – 290 – 301
Act 5 Scene 2 221-228

Brainwashes
Act 3 Scene ¾ - Any of it

Desdemona’s naivety
Act 4 Scene 2 – 148-150
Act 4 Scene 2 - 40-46
Act 3 Scene 3 - 60-75

Conclusion
This is where you decide what you feel the biggest factor in the outcome of the play is.

Tragic Hero – You can either:
Integrate this throughout your essay with references to Othello’s character
Or devote a few paragraphs at the beginning or end of the essay concentrating on the subject.

Basie

In your book, make detailed notes (with quotations) about the character of Basie. Considering:

• Jim’s attitude to him
• His attitude towards Jim
• His attitude towards the war
• His behaviour in the camp
• His way of survival
• His importance in terms of the plot

Useful passages and pages to consider.

• 95-9
• 101
• 115-20
• 165
• 216-21
• 223-4
• 225-6
• 236
• 317
• 318
• 321
• 322-4
• 329
• 332


Ext Read the following extract (page 116-7). This is where Jim and Basie are at the Open Air Cinema.

Death of a Salesman Quotations

Important Quotations
Find each of these quotations. Who says them? To whom? What is the significance of these quotations within the play as a whole?

… he thinks I’m nothing, see, and so he spites me. But the funeral … Ben, that funeral will be massive.

A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

Be liked and you will never want.

Gee, look at the moon moving between the buildings.

He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong.

He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.

I can see it like a diamond, shining in the dark, hard and rough, that I can pick up and touch in my hand. Not like – like an appointment.

I know you laugh at me behind my back.

I never got anywhere because you blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from anybody!

I realised what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

I still feel kinda temporary about myself.

I thank Almighty God that you’re both built like Adonises. Because the man who creates an appearance in the business world is the man who gets ahead.

I’m a dime a dozen, and so are you.

I’m not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you.

I’m not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There’s a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.

I’ve got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.

In those days there was personality in it, … There was respect, and comradeship, and gratitude in it.

It’s Brooklyn, I know, but we hunt too.

Nothing’ll grow any more.

The gist of it is that I haven’t got a story left in my head.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell.

They time them so when you finally paid for them, they’re used up.

Why must everybody conquer the world?

Will you take that phoney dream and burn it before something happens?

Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It’s the only dream you can have – to come out number-one man.

Willy, dear, what has he got against you?

You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away – a man is not a piece of fruit.

You fake! You phoney little fake! You fake!