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1
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Brabantio’s daughter rebelling

Method: threat of female agency

Act 1 Scene 1

A

‘Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs’

2
Q

Desdemona as a shame on Brabantio’s household

Method: reference to fearful female autonomy

Act 1 Scene 1

A

‘Your daughter, if you have not given her leave … hath made a gross revolt’

3
Q

Brabantio’s warning to fathers about their daughters not being dutiful

Method: reference to fearful female autonomy

Act 1 Scene 1

A

‘Fathers … trust not your daughters’ minds’

4
Q

What is the effect of women not being dutiful according to Brabantio?

Method: reference to the Elizabethan Chain of Being; natural hierarchy

Act 1 Scene 2

A

‘Bond slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be’

5
Q

Desdemona’s duty to her father

Method: Desdemoma’s fidelity

Act 1 Scene 3

A

‘To you I am bound for life and education’

6
Q

Desdemona’s duty to her husband

Method: reference to the combining of the domestic and public sphere (‘quality’ is job)

Act 1 Scene 3

A

‘My heart’s subdued even to the very quality of my lord’

7
Q

Iago on Desdemona’s fidelity to Othello

Method: reference to female sexual appetite; women are capricious

Act 1 Scene 3

A

‘When she is sated with his body … she must have change’

8
Q

Iago on womankind’s undutiful nature

Method: reference to female sexual appetite

Act 2 Scene 1

A

Women are ‘players in your housewifery, and housewives in … your beds’

9
Q

Othello’s proclamation of duty to Desdemona

Method: Othello’s initial adoration towards Desdemona

Act 3 Scene 3

A

‘I will deny thee nothing’

10
Q

Desdemona’s proclamation of duty to Othello

Method: reference to conventional female fidelity

Act 3 Scene 3

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‘Whate’er you be, I am obedient’

11
Q

Iago’s declaration of duty to Othello

Method: parody of the wedding ceremony

Act 3 Scene 3

A

‘Iago kneels’

‘Iago doth give up the execution of his wit, hands, heart, to wronged Othello’s service’

12
Q

What does Iago accuse Cassio of doing with Desdemona?

Method: reference to fearful female sexual appetite; female agency leads to cuckoldry; Desdemona as undutiful

Act 4 Scene 1

A

‘Lie … with her, on her, what you will’

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