An Evening With Othello

Me: It's nice to be speaking with you, Othello, despite your unfortunate state of being dead.  Although, as merely a fictional character, your death is hardly one that manifests itself in any physical sense, but rather a symbolic, literary one.  I'm sorry, don't mind me.  I learned to talk in that affluent, perhaps even verbose, manner in AP English 11.

Othello: "As if there were some monster in thy thought" (3.3.107)

Me: Oh, no, no my dear friend.  You see, AP English 11 was a trying time in my typically trite life.  You see, because you haven't ever taken a course as rigorous as AP English, I bet you couldn't even push the implications of that alliteration I used in that last sentence!

Othello: "O, blood, blood, blood!" (3.3.448)

Me: Dear goodness, take it easy man! Just put the gun down and relax, I was just joking!

Othello: "Fetch me the handkerchief!" (3.4.90)

Me: What? What are you talking about? I don't even own a handkerchief, its the 21st century.  Just put the gun down and stop making obscure demands.

Othello: "For I know thou'rt full of love and honesty" (3.3.118)

Me: There, now that's more like it. I wanted to ask you if you have ever annotated a book before.  You know, literary devices, interacting with the text.  Because last year, all that was pretty new to me.

Othello: "Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell" (4.2.38)

Me: I don't think you are in a position to make such a claim, who are you to say I've never annotated before AP English 11?  Well, I guess I had, but not in the manner that AP English and Ms. Serensky require.

Othello: "Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be damned/ tonight" (4.1.183-184)

Me: OK, what is wrong with you? Why are you so violent? Although her methods are demanding, I have to admit that without the rigorous experience of the class, I would not be as intelligent as I am now.  Nonetheless, I think this interview has proved completely futile, and is thus over.  I dread saying this, but is there anything else you'd like to add?

Othello: "Put out the light, and then put out the light" (5.2.7)

Me: Good thinking, it's not smart to leave a light on in a room once you leave it. But at the same time, it isn't smart to kill your wife purely out of suspicion, but we all make mistakes.  OK, OK, put the gun down! I'm leaving!