An Introduction to Key Quotations in Othello

Your group will be assigned an essential quotation from Othello.

Your first task is to freewrite silently for 5 minutes on the quotation. You may define words, make connections, draw images, make up a story, list associations, etc.

You will be sharing your freewrites with your group.

1. Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end.

2. My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty.

3. I am abused and my relief must be to loathe her.

4. I nothing, but to please his fantasy.

5. Then must you speak of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, perplexed in the extreme.

After sharing your freewrites, you will have 8 minutes to construct a body sculpture. A body sculpture shows the meaning of the quotation by using your body. This is different than a tableau (remember A Raisin in the Sun??) because you can move.

Body Sculpture Requirements:

1. All group members must be part of the sculpture.

2. While at different points your body sculpture may be a moving, it must end in a frozen moment.

3. The only speech that may occur once the sculpture has “begun” is the pronouncement of the quotation itself.

So…what do you think they were showing?