Quotes Meaning

Question 1

‘Tomorrow night.’ or Tuesday morn or Tuesday noon’

Answer 1

Lack of empathy for Othello.
Fails to recognize his anger.

Question 2

‘Tomorrow night.’ or Tuesday morn or Tuesday noon’ Victorian audience

Answer 2

It’s unusual for a women to be getting involved in her husbands public affairs
Subverts expectations

Question 3

‘Tomorrow night.’ or Tuesday morn or Tuesday noon’ modern day audience

Answer 3

The buildup of her anxiousness and makes the audience question why she’s being so persistent

Question 4

‘There be women that abuse their husbands in such kind’

Answer 4

Suggests how out of touch she is with the world around her.
Also suggests her age

Question 5

‘There be women that abuse their husbands in such kind’ elizabethan

Answer 5

Would be a typical view for someone of the period

Question 6

‘There be women that abuse their husbands in such kind’ modern

Answer 6

Her lack of understanding for those not in her social class or women without the social morals makes her character unlikeable

Question 7

‘I think the sun where he was born
Drew all such humours from him. ‘

Answer 7

Desdemona says Othello is incapable of being jealous.
ironic suggests she doesn’t know her husband

Question 8

‘I think the sun where he was born
Drew all such humours from him. Elizabethean

Answer 8

Ssuggest Desdemona doesn’t truly know her husband so is failing her duties as a wife

Question 9

‘I think the sun where he was born
Drew all such humours from him. Modern

Answer 9

Ironic since the audience is aware of his jealousy

Question 10

‘The divine desdemona’ meaning

Answer 10

Puts Desdemona on a pedestal.
Divine connotes Godlike imagery.
Perfection

Question 11

‘The divine desdemona’ elizabethan

Answer 11

She is complict with the standards the society has set around her

Question 12

‘The divine desdemona’ modern

Answer 12

An Unrealistic ideology which therefore foreshadows her inevitable tragedy

Question 13

‘Fresh and delicate creature’ meaning

Answer 13

Highlights her beauty again.
Fresh and delicate contrasts creature.
Hidden truths

Question 14

’ How she got out’ meaning

Answer 14

Brabantio fails to understand how she even got out since their is strict provisions over her.
Suggests a confidence

Question 15

’ How she got out’ elizabethan

Answer 15

someone of Desdemona’s class would have been under great protection

Question 16

’ How she got out’ modern

Answer 16

the idea that unfair measures were implaced.
Bound to be manipulated

Question 17

‘ What wouldst though write of me if thou should’st praise me’ meaning

Answer 17

Desdemona is flirting with iago

Question 18

‘ What wouldst though write of me if thou should’st praise me’ Elizabethan

Answer 18

Disgraced.
Once again pushing the boundaries as someone married and of her class wasn’t expected to associate herself with any male outside her family

Question 19

‘ What wouldst though write of me if thou should’st praise me’ modern

Answer 19

As an audience we can see her naivety increasing which inevitably leads to her downfall