A5S2 Key quotes

Question 1

Key quotes from Othello’s speech while Desdemona is sleeping (4)

Answer 1

• ‘not scar that whiter skin of hers than snow’
• ‘she must die else she’ll betray more men’
• ‘I cannot give it vital growth again’
• ‘I must weep but they are cruel tears’

Question 2

How does Othello play God (2)

Answer 2

• ‘I would not kill thy unprepared spirit’
• ‘I that am cruel, am yet merciful’

Question 3

Desdemona quote about love

Answer 3

‘that death’s unnatural that kills for loving’

Question 4

Desdemona victim quotes (3)

Answer 4

• ‘I never did offend you in my life’
• ‘kill me tomorrow: let me live tonight’
• ‘a guiltless death I die’

Question 5

Othello’s raving lunacies once he killed Desdemona (3)

Answer 5

• ‘shall she come in?’
• ‘what’s best to do?’
• ‘my wife? my wife? my wife? I have no wife’

Question 6

‘Then murder’s out of tune…

Answer 6

…and sweet revenge grows harsh’

Question 7

Emilia reaction to Othello killing Desdemona

Answer 7

‘the more angel she, and you the blacker devil’

Question 8

How does Othello respond to Emilia’s repeated questioning

Answer 8

‘my friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago’

Question 9

What does Emilia repeatedly question

Answer 9

‘my husband?’

Question 10

How does Iago summarise his role in the events

Answer 10

‘I told him what I thought, and no more than what he found himself was apt and true’

Question 11

How does Emilia insinuate Othello as a monster

Answer 11

‘lay thee down and roar’

Question 12

‘you told a lie…

Answer 12

…an odious, damned lie’

Question 13

How does Othello react to the true events being revealed to him

Answer 13

‘I am not valiant neither’

Question 14

What does Emilia say about Desdemona as she dies

Answer 14

‘she loved thee cruel Moor’

Question 15

Othello hellish references in his monologue (2)

Answer 15

• ‘whip me ye devils’
• ‘roast me in sulphur’

Question 16

How does Othello reference his lack of reputation (2)

Answer 16

• ‘he that was Othello’
• calls himself a ‘malignant and turbaned Turk’

Question 17

How Othello attempt to reclaim his reputation (3)

Answer 17

• ‘an honourable murder…for naught I did in hate’
• ‘speak of me as I am’
• ‘one that loved not wisely but too well’

Question 18

Iago’s final words

Answer 18

‘demand me nothing. What you know, you know’

Question 19

What does Lodovico say about the scene in front of him

Answer 19

‘the object poisons sight’