...Othello because he is black. He gets Othello to say so. But lago can only make an object of Othello — "A fixed figure for the time of scorn / To point his slow and moving finger at!" (IV.2. 64-65) — if Othello makes an object of Desdemona. At the end, of course,...

...view, "the impediment most profitably removed" (2.1.279-80), trapped into being what he most fears, "a fixed figure for the time of scorn / To point his slow and moving finger at" (4.2.56-57). lago and Emilia offer a farcical perspective on adultery, trivializing...

...captivity me and my utmost hopes, I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience. But, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at! Yet could I bear that too; well, very well. But there where I have garnered up my heart, Where either I...

...me and my utmost hopes, •»> I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience. But alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at I Yet could I bear that too, well, very well: But there where I have garnered up my heart, Where either...

...manifest, declare . . . also to accuse, to appeach or detect.' " See also Othello's "to make me / The fixed figure for the time of scorn / To point his slow unmoving finger at!" (IV. ii. 53-55). Indite as "write" is linked with delatio through Latin déferre. 10. See Winifred...

...his abhorrence revealing his unaccommodated inclination. He grieves at the notion that he may be made "A fixed figure, for the time of scorn / To point his slow unmoving fingers at" (4.2.55-56). He is, second (with reference to Dod and Cleaver's insistence on peace as...

...captivity me and my utmost hopes, I should have found in some place of my soul 65 A drop of patience. But alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at! Yet could I bear that too, well, very well; But there where I have garnered up my heart, 70 Where either...

...to captivity me and my hopes, I should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience; but, alas, to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving fingers at ... oh, oh. Yet could I bear that too, well, very well: But there, where I have garner'd...

...60 (p. 31) the finger of scorn Shakespeare, Othello (1603), 4, 2, 53-5: 'but alas, to make me / The fixed figure for the time of scorn / To point his slow unmoving finger at!'. 6 1 (p. 32) wasting . . . air compare Thomas Gray (1716-71), Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard...

...'I have fallen into the sere and yellow, Chief Inspector. I am declined into the vale of years. I am a fixed figure for the time of scorn to point his slow unmoving finger at. Yurrahumph!' He coughed unpleasantly and spat. 'You would not credit it, Superintendent Alleyn, if...