| 1.1 | “I am not what I am”Iago | paradox to us alone; he fools everyone on stage but not the audience | ● | | ● | | ○ | | | | | |
| 1.1 | “An old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe”Iago | animal imagery in the dark; the marriage as theft, race as a weapon | | | | | ○ | | ● | | ○ | |
| 1.1 | “the beast with two backs”Iago | crude animal image aimed at Brabantio; racism used on purpose | | | | | ○ | | ● | | ○ | |
| 1.3 | “she loved me for the dangers I had passed”Othello | love built on story: beautiful, fragile, easy to poison | | | | | | | ○ | | ● | ○ |
| 1.3 | “She has deceived her father, and may thee”Brabantio | the seed; one public choice recast as a habit of deceit | ○ | | | ○ | | | | ● | ○ | |
| 2.3 | “Reputation, reputation, reputation!”Cassio | repetition and hyperbole; a public name becomes the soul | | | | | ○ | ● | | | | |
| 2.3 | “I'll pour this pestilence into his ear”Iago | poison metaphor; manipulation as a dose, administered | ○ | ○ | | | ● | | | | | |
| 2.3 | “they do suggest at first with heavenly shows”Iago | devils dressed as angels; Iago naming his own method | ○ | | ● | | ○ | | | | | |
| 3.3 | “O beware, my lord, of jealousy … the green-eyed monster”Iago | personification; a predator he warns of and plants himself | ○ | ● | | | ○ | | | | | |
| 3.3 | “trifles light as air … strong as proofs of holy writ”Iago | simile and contrast; jealousy needs no evidence at all | | ● | | ● | ○ | | | | | |
| 3.3 | “Give me the ocular proof”Othello | the demand is the trap; proof is the one thing that can be made | ○ | ○ | | ● | | | | | | |
| 3.3 | “the immediate jewel of their souls”Iago | metaphor from the thief; reputation priced by the man stealing it | | | ○ | | ○ | ● | | | | |
| 3.3 | “Haply for I am black”Othello | soliloquy; the slur of 1.1 returns in the victim's own voice | | ○ | | | | | ● | | | ○ |
| 3.3 | “The Moor already changes with my poison”Iago | the poison metaphor extended; the plan working in real time | ○ | | | | ● | | | | | |
| 3.3 | “I am your own forever”Iago | dramatic irony; devotion that seals the ruin | ● | | ○ | | ○ | | | | | |
| 3.3 | “Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow hell”Othello | the turn; love swapped for vengeance in a single line | | ● | | | | | | | | ○ |
| 3.3 | “when I love thee not, chaos is come again”Othello | the marriage as the order of the world; break it and all tips | ○ | | | | | | | | ● | ○ |
| 4.2 | “Am I that name, Iago?”Desdemona | the word she cannot say; a name as a verdict on a woman | | | | | | ○ | | ● | ○ | |
| 4.3 | “Let husbands know their wives have sense like them”Emilia | a plain list of the senses, a command to husbands not in the room; the play's case for women | | | | | | | | ● | ● | |
| 5.2 | “It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul”Othello | repetition; murder renamed as justice, self-deception at the end | | | | ○ | | ○ | | | | ● |
| 5.2 | “Put out the light, and then put out the light”Othello | light as life; the murder made ritual, not rage | | | | | | | | ○ | ○ | ● |
| 5.2 | “Nobody. I myself. Farewell”Desdemona | dying, she still shields him; innocence made unbearable | | | | | | | | ● | ○ | ○ |
| 5.2 | “I will speak as liberal as the north”Emilia | she breaks the rule of the good wife; the truth costs her life | ○ | | | | | | | ● | | ○ |
| 5.2 | “Demand me nothing. What you know, you know”Iago | silence as the last weapon; knowing was never proof | ● | | | ○ | ○ | | | | | ○ |
| 5.2 | “loved not wisely, but too well”Othello | antithesis; he writes his own ending, we weigh the sympathy | | ○ | | | | ○ | | | ○ | ● |
| Quotes per door | home + flexes. A thin door is where you borrow from a second room. | 3+8 | 3+4 | 2+2 | 2+3 | 2+10 | 2+3 | 3+1 | 5+1 | 3+7 | 3+7 |