Although it may feel as if certain characters in the play like to ramble, there are many lines in Othello that are poignant, powerful, or profound. Explore a line or a few lines that you find particularly powerful, funny, or profound. Explain yourself.
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In Shakespeares Othello, there are many important and meaningful lines. There are also funny and interesting ones that may be equally as important. Iago has repeated the line " put but thy money in thy purse" quite frequently throughtout the play. It is powerful becuase it shows how he is using Roderigo for money and he can be sly and tricky without anyone being aware. It is also funny how Roderigo is still paying Iago to help him and how Roderigo doesn't even notice he is being tricked. Certain lines show characters personalities through what they say. Also, lines like this help readers understand the play and characters better. These are not only lines that are powerful and funny but are important and helpful as well.
In Othello, there are many powerful, funny, significant, profound, and interesting lines. There is one part of Cassio's dialogue that was interesting and significant. The line was when Cassio was speaking to Montano, about Desdemona. Cassio said, "Most fortunately. He hath achieved a maid that paragons description and wild fame, one that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, and in th' essential vesture of creation does tire ingener." This line is significant, because this part tells the audience that Cassio thinks that Desdemona is great in every way, which is like him saying that he is in love with Desdemona. Him showing that the audience allows us to kind of understand Iago's plans more, for getting Cassio in trouble with Othello, and how exactly Iago is going to do it.
One line in Othello that I think is powerful is found on page 5. Iago is speaking to Roderigo and tells him: "But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve; For daws to peck at; I am not what I am". This is a powerful line because Iago is telling Roderigo that although he may act a certain way, he is not the person people believe he is. This is also a significant line because Iago tells Roderigo that he will show his emotions and have people "peck" at them because it is all part of his act to get Desdemona and Othello to break up. Iago is known as the villain in this play and we realize just how well of a villain he really is by this line.
Like Georgia said "Put money in thy purse" Iago likes money, and power. Roderigo ends up giving it to him without knowing that he is being conned the whole time. Iago tells Roderigo that by giving him the money that Desdemona will end up loving him over Othello. Roderigo is blinded by his love for Desdemona so much that he is willing to do anything to get her. Iago is the type of person who will use others feeling to his own advantage, and this means essentially stealing the money. This line is a significant line because this is how Iago gets Roderigo to do everything for him. By saying that if he pays him that Desdemona will love him, Roderigo will listen and do what he is told. Roderigo carries out much of Iago's plan through out the play.
One line that is profound is when Othello states “Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approved good masters, That I have ta’en away this old man’s daughter, It is most true; true I have married her. This line is powerful because it states that Othello is not afraid to state that he took Desdemona. He also stated that he married her and that he won her, instead of using magic as Brabantino states. Othello had shown that he was brave by stating this and also that he was honest. When he says this Brabantino said that it is not possible for Desdemona to marry a moor such as Othello because it was not natural. Brabantino said “ She is abused, stol’n from me, and corrupted By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks; For nature so prepost’rously to err, Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense, Sans witchcraft could not. This dialogue states that Brabantino thought that Othello tricked Desdemona into loving him using magic. He states that it is not natural for a moor and a white person to love each other.
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