"By debitor and creditor; this counter-caster, [Cassio] in good must his lieutenant be and I, bless the mark, his Moorship's ancient." " Line 43 - "I follow him to serve my turn upon him..." " Previously Roderigo was telling Iago to quit if he did not like his position but Iago replies with "I follow [Othello] to serve my turn upon him." ... Line 65-71 - Brabantio Insults Othello "Whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy, so opposite to marriage that she shunned the wealthy curled darlings of our nation , would ever have, t'incur a general mock, run from her guardage to the sooty b...

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A Marxist will state that the lower classes will always and continually strive to achieve a higher position in the social hierarchy, and thus Othello can be regarded as a struggling, black outsider trying to fit into a Venetian society. ... He claims "She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks, For nature no preposterously to err, Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense, Sans witchcraft could not."" [1.3.60-64...

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SCENE SUMMARIES AND NOTES Act I, Scene 1 The play opens late at night on a street in Venice. Roderigo, a wealthy Venetian gentleman, is discussing the marriage of Desdemona, the daughter of Brabantio. Earlier in the evening, she had eloped with Othello, a Moor who is a respected Genera...

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