came up here to type smth that i want to remember...

Othello:

Iago called Roderigo a snipe. He called Othello the moor and also an ass.

Quotes from Iago:
"I follow him to serve my turn upon him" -- has neither love nor duty but to use the person
"We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed" -- yet performs the duty falsely
"Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves" -- only out of self interest/profit
"I am not what i am" -- deceiver of all

Iago: Milton's Satan
"I know my price, i am worth no worse a place"

Why does Iago commit such evil?
-dramatic opening scene
-one of treachery and malice
-revolves on the theme of hurt
-the human 'power to hurt' amd the 'power to be hurt' <---don't quite agree with this...how can you actually have POWER to be hurt, it's not within your control.
-the relationship between culpability(the impulse and capacity to inflict suffering) and vulnerbility(the capacity to suffer)
-extremest results - acts of murder and of suicide
-commonest kind of hurt - to be emotionally or physically rejected - of being militarily 'cashiered'

"never found a man who knew how to love himself"


The Caretaker

To pinter, laughter is :"a precaution, a smoke screen, a refusal to accept what is happening as recognizable and instead to view the actors as actors always and not as characters or chimpanzees"

"The Caretaker is funny up to a point. Beyond the point when it ceases to be funny" -- when laughter stops, the turn from comic to non comic signals a turn from security to insecurity.

Laughter can be of many reasons othen than humour.

"I can take nothing you say at face value. Every word you speak is open to any number of different interpretations." <----i think this is exceptionally true.