The phrase is often used to express that something is not important to take a side to support or refute it.Ĭonfirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.” Iago (Act III, Scene III) Explanation:. Neither here nor there means it doesn’t matter its synonyms include irrelevant and insignificant. The origin of this famous expression is older than Shakespeare but it did gain in popularity after the play and remains to be widely used. “T’is neither here nor there” Emilia (Act IV, Scene III) Explanation:. The words are important to the play as they ring in Othello’s ears later, adding to the poison they are being fed against Desdemona by Iago. They tell Othello to beware if he is wise enough to see as his daughter who has deceived him may someday do the same to Othello. His words can be taken as a curse and a forewarning. This line is said to Othello by Desdemona’s father who feels he has been shamed by his daughter who has run away with Othello and thus has also become involved in an interracial relationship. She has deceived her father, and may thee.” Brabantio (Act I, Scene III) Explanation:. “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. However if you keep mourning your loss it would do nothing more but lead to more hardship. In other words if you are able to smile at your loss, you stand above the person who has inflicted you that hardship. It says that a person who has been robbed takes something away from the thief who has robbed him if he is able to smile at his loss but if he grieves he is only further robbing himself. This famous quotation is part of the advice given by the Duke to Desdemona’s father Brabantio after Brabantio feels that he has been shamed by his daughter. He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.” The Duke (Act I, Scene III) Explanation:. “The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief Othello perhaps means that it if he hadn’t loved her she would have never died and now for the repentance for the injustice he has done to her love, he must kiss her before he kills himself to prove Desdemona’s love was true and faithful. He says he kissed her before he killed her and now it is appropriate that he kisses her while he kills himself. He then stabs himself and dies on top of his wife. These are the last words said by Othello before he kisses Desdemona whom he has just murdered. Killing myself, to die upon a kiss” Othello (Act V, Scene II) Explanation:. “I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee: no way but this Emilia is thus implying that infidelity is justified if there is something substantial to gain from it. This line says that why wouldn’t you cheat on your husband if it made him the King. A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife. While Desdemona is absolutely devoted to love and marriage, Emilia looks at it with practical intelligence. This quotation is part of an important passage in the play in which Desdemona has a discussion with Iago’s wife Emilia on marriage and fidelity. “Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a Monarch?” Emilia (Act IV, Scene III) Explanation:. In other words if you hold on to a grudge over behaviour you consider improper then it would only lead you to commit an act that will cause more trouble. It says that to worry about a mischief that has already been done would only lead to more mischief. This quotation is part of the advice given by the Duke to Desdemona’s father Brabantio after his daughter has openly defied him and proclaimed that she ran away with Othello because she loves him. Is the next way to draw new mischief on.” The Duke (Act I, Scene III) Explanation:. “To mourn a mischief that is past and gone He says that reputation is an idle or fanciful attribute falsely imposed on one, often when one doesn’t deserve it and similarly it is usually lost when one doesn’t deserve to lose it. In this famous line Iago ironically tells Cassio that reputation is not important and is often earned and lost without justification though it is Iago himself who has caused the decline in Cassio’s reputation. Oft got without merit and lost without deserving” Iago (Act II, Scene III) Explanation:. “Reputation is an idle and most false imposition,
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