MEANING: WHAT IS THE CHARACTER SAYING? WHAT THOUGHT IS S/HE EXPRESSING?

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DEMONSTRATION
ORIGINAL TEXT Work on, My medicine, work! Keep working medicine! Thus credulous fools are caught,
This is how

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fools are tricked, even thus, , meet My lord, Othello! .What, oh no! My lord!

And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,And many good and All guiltless, meet reproach.What, ho! My lord! My lord, I say! Othello! DEFINITIONS: Chaste= virginal/innocent/pure Dames = woman of honor (wife of a knight)/woman Reproach = criticize/punish criticism/punishment

Credulous = gullible/trusting/unsuspecting/naive Guiltless = guilt + less = not guilty/innocent

MEANING:Keep working, poison! This is the way to trick gullible fools. Many good and innocent women are
punished for reasons like this.My lord? My lord, Othello! MOOD: What is the character feeling? Why? The character is feeling two different things as he says these lines. At first, he is feeling conceited/self-satisfied with what he has been able to make Othello feel. Secondly, he feels the need to hide his true feeling from Cassio and make it appear that he is concerned for Othellos well being. MOTIVATION: Why is the character saying these lines? (what was their cause or intended effect?Why is the character having these emotions? The character says these lines because he is so happy with the success of his plan so far, and wants to take advantage of the small opportunity he has to celebrate while Othello is overcome by a trance/seizure. Iago knows that his plan is a success because he has caused Othellos jealousy is now overwhelming him physically. METHOD: How are the lines delivered? What actions, facial expressions, pauses, exaggeration did the actor/actress use to convey the meaning and mood?Iago is facing Othello when he begins talking. At the word Thus he turns to look at the audience/camera to emphasize the fact that he is explaining how jealousy works. Lastly, he should move away from Othello and make his face looked genuinely concerned when he yells What, ho!... In this way, he will seem to be convincing Cassio of his love for Othello.

PRACTICE #1(WE DO)

MEANING: WHAT IS THE CHARACTER SAYING? WHAT THOUGHT IS S/HE EXPRESSING?

Step 1: Rewrite the lines and leave blanks for the words you do not understand; Step 2: Write down words you do not know and record definitions. Step 3: Insert definitions into blank spaces. Step 4: Re-read the lines and paraphrase them in your own words. ORIGINAL TEXT STEP 1: Stand you awhile apart, Confine yourself but in a patient list. Whilst you were here o'erwhelmd with your grief A passion most resulting such a man Cassio came hither. I shifted him away And laid good scuses upon your ecstasy, Bade him anon return and here speak with me, The which he promised. Do but encave yourself, And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns That dwell in every region of his face. For I will make him tell the tale anew Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when He hath, and is again to cope your wife. I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience, Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen, And nothing of a man. DEFINITIONS:

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PRACTICE #2 (YOU DO)

MEANING: WHAT IS THE CHARACTER SAYING? WHAT THOUGHT IS S/HE EXPRESSING?

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HINT: BE SURE TO REVIEW THE LINES PRIOR TO THOSE YOU ARE TRANSLATING TO
HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE MEANING

ORIGINAL TEXT A likely piece of work, that you should find it in your chamber, and not know who left it there! This is some minxs token, and I must take out the work? There, give it your hobby-horse. Wheresoever you had it, Ill take out no work on t.

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PRACTICE #3 (YOU DO)

ORIGINAL TEXT I greet thy love,Get me some poison, Iago; this night: I'll not expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again: this night, Iago. DEFINITIONS: STEP 1:

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PRACTICE #4 (YOU DO)

ORIGINAL TEXT IAGO Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed, even STEP 1:

MEANING: WHAT IS THE CHARACTER SAYING? WHAT THOUGHT IS S/HE EXPRESSING?

Step 1: Rewrite the lines and leave blanks for the words you do not understand; Step 2: Write down words you do not know and record definitions. Step 3: Insert definitions into blank spaces. Step 4: Re-read the lines and paraphrase them in your own words. the bed she hath contaminated. DEFINITIONS:

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PRACTICE #5 (YOU DO)

ORIGINAL TEXT Maybe the letter moved him, For, as I think, they do command him home, Deputing Cassio in his government. DEFINITIONS: STEP 1:

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PRACTICE #6 (YOU DO)

ORIGINAL TEXT I have not deserved this. DEFINITIONS: STEP 1:

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PRACTICE #7 (YOU DO)

MEANING: WHAT IS THE CHARACTER SAYING? WHAT THOUGHT IS S/HE EXPRESSING?

Step 1: Rewrite the lines and leave blanks for the words you do not understand; Step 2: Write down words you do not know and record definitions. Step 3: Insert definitions into blank spaces. Step 4: Re-read the lines and paraphrase them in your own words. ORIGINAL TEXT STEP 1: My lord, this would not be believed in Venice, Though I should swear I saw t. 'Tis very much. Make her amends, she weeps. DEFINITIONS:

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