Shakespeare
Othello
Act I
Motifs:

Scene 1
Sight Motifs:

• Line 28 “whom his eyes had seen proof”
• Line 170 “By what you see them act”

Heaven/Hell/God/Devil Motifs:

• Line 60:  “Heaven is my judge”
• Line 66: “I am not what I am”
• Line 72: “Plague him with flies”
• Line 92: “Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you”
• Line 109-110: “God of the devil bid you”
• Line 153: “I do hell’s pains”

Animal/Monstrous Motifs:

• Line 89: “An old black ram is tupping your white ewe”
• Line 11: “with a Barbary hurse”, “your nephews neigh at you” “coursers for cousins” “jennets for germans”
• Line 116: “beast with two backs”

Light/Dark Motifs:

• Line 77: “As when, by night and negligence, the fire/ is spied in populous cities”

Bindings/Clasps Motifs:

• Line 125: “To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor”

Race/Color Motifs:

• Line 74: “AS it may lose some colour”

Scene 2
Race/Color: 

• Line 70: “run from her guardage to the sooty bosom”

Bindings/Clasps:

• Line 65: “If she in chains of magic were not bound”

God/Devil:

• Line 9: “That, with the little godliness I have”

Scene 3
Sight Motifs:

• Line 19: “To keep us in false gaze”
• Line63: “Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense”
• Line 249-250: “And to his honours and his valiant parts/Did I my sould and fortunes consecrate”
• Line 288-289: “Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see:/ She has deceived her father and may thee”
• Line 334-335: “It was a violent commencement, and thou/shalt see an answerable sequestration
• Line 375: “Let me see now”

Heaven/Hell/God/Devil Motifs:

• Line 102: “To find out practices of cunning hell”
• Line 122: “And till she come, as truly as to heaven”
• Line 385: “Hell and night”

Animals:

• Line 309-310: “I would say I would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen,/I would change my humanity with a baboon”
• Line 327: “Drown cats and blind puppies”
• Line 337: “Luscious as locusts/ shall be to him shortly as acer as the coloquintida”

Light/Dark:

• Line 386: “Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light”

Race/Color:

• Line 286: “Your son-in-aw is far more fair than black”
• Line 336: “The Moors are changeable in their wills”
• Lines 342-345: “If Sanctimony/and a frail vow….shalt enjoy her”

Bindings/Clasps:

• Line 328-329: “I have professed me thy friend, and I confess me knit to thy/deserving with cables of perdurable toughness”

Plants:

• Line 315: “So/that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed/ up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it”