"A nobel Venetian kinsman to Barbantio. Uncle of Desdemona after Barbantio(father) dies of heart break of his daughter being taken from him by the Moor."
Lodovico to Othello
4.1.239-241
"My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,
Though I should swear I saw ’t. 'Tis very much.
Make her amends, she weeps"
-- Othello just slapped his wife. Lodovico says that all of Venice would not believe what just happened because of Othello's reputation. No one could ever see Othello as someone who would harm his wife, even though in reality he just did.
4.1. 262-265
"Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate
Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature
Whom passion could not shake? Whose solid virtue
The shot of accident nor dart of chance
Could neither graze nor pierce?"
– Othello has the appearance and reputation of someone who never cracks under pressure and never lets emotion get to him, but now, so consumed with jealousy, he can’t control what he is doing and Lodovico is questioning whether or not he is sane. Iago reassures him that he is sane. In reality Iago knows that Othello is planning to kill both Desdemona and Cassio tonight, clearly meaning he is not sane and does infact need help.
...Literary Devices
Rhetorical Question: a question asked for effect, with no answer expected.
Polysyndeton: the repetition of conjunctions in a series of corrdinate words, phrases or clauses.
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