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SEVEN DEADLY

SINSOthello - Shakespeare

Adam Botach

Period 4

10/26/2010

ENVYOthello’s Envy

IAGO:“Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy!

It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock

The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss

Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger,

But, oh, what damnèd minutes tells he o'er

Who dotes, yet doubts— suspects, yet soundly loves!”

(III,iii,170-177)

“Jealousy and Flirtation”

Haynes King

GREEDIago’s Greed

IAGO (Talking to himself about how he tricked Roderigo)

“Thus do I ever make my fool my purse.

For I mine own gained knowledge should profane

If I would time expend with such a snipe

But for my sport and profit”.(I,iii, 320-323)

“The Seven Deadly Sins – Greed”

James Perez

WRATHOthello’s Wrath

OTHELLO:

“Lie with her? lie on her? We say “lie on her” when they belie her! Lie with her—that’s fulsome. Handkerchief—confessions—handkerchief! To confess, and be

hanged for his labor. First to be hanged, and then to confess—I tremble at it. Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion without some

instruction. It is not words that shake me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and lips. Is ’t possible? Confess!—Handkerchief!—Oh, devil! –“

(falls in a trance)(IV,i,26-34)

“Fire and brimstone!”(IV,i,178)

“Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,Made to write “whore” upon? What committed?

Committed? O thou public commoner!I should make very forges of my cheeksThat would to cinders burn up modesty

Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed?Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks,

The bawdy wind that kisses all it meetsIs hushed within the hollow mine of earth

And will not hear ’t. What committed!Impudent strumpet!”

(IV,ii,73-84)

“The Wrath of Ahasuerus”

Jan Steen

LUSTRoderigo’s Lust

IAGO“…if thou the next night following enjoy

not Desdemona, take me from this world with treachery

and devise engines for my life.”

RODERIGO:“Well, what is it? Is it within reason and compass?”

(IV,ii,196-200)

RODERIGO (about his one-sided love to Desdemona) “I will incontinently drown myself.”

(I,iii,301)

IAGO “It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.

Come, be a man. Drown thyself?”(I,iii,308-309)

“The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust”

Marta Dahlig

PRIDEBrabantio’s Pride

BRABANTIO (to the DUKE):

“A maiden never bold,

Of spirit so still and quiet that her motion

Blushed at herself. And she, in spite of nature,

Of years, of country, credit, everything,

To fall in love with what she feared to look on?

It is a judgment maimed and most imperfect

That will confess perfection so could err.

Against all rules of nature, and must be driven

To find out practices of cunning hell

Why this should be. I therefore vouch again

That with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood

Or with some dram, conjured to this effect,

He wrought upon her.”

(I,iii,98-106)

(He wouldn’t allow his daughter marry someone like Othello because of his race, credit, age…)

“Superbia” (in Latin means: “Pride”) Pieter Bruegel The Elder