Brabantio KQ

Question 1

“O, treason of blood!”

Answer 1

Act 1 scene 1-
*suggests great betrayal or violation of family ties.
*“treason”- link to monarchy- insight into the patriarchal beliefs of Jacobean Era- Women are property- submissive to men.

Question 2

“O, thou foul thief! Where hast thou stow’d my daughter?”

Answer 2

Act 1 scene 2-
* “foul thief”- accusing Othello of theft- see’s his daughter as a possession, something he owns. Also very racially motivated, no way she left of her own free will, she was taken. “stow’d”- concealment.
*foreshadowing the challenges/clashes that will rise due to an interracial marriage.

Question 3

“Abus’d her delicate youth with drugs or minerals”

Answer 3

Act 1 scene 2-
* Racial beliefs- black men are violent, dangerous, all the same.
*Allussion to witchcraft- Jacobean Era- fear of witchcraft and potions- Only way Othello won Desdemona is through witchcraft and potions.
* “delicate youth- Brabantio’s fear of Desdemona’s purity and innocence being corrupted, see’s the “moor” as dirty, evil, corrupting.

Question 4

“she is abus’d, stol’n from me and corrupted”

Answer 4

Act 1 scene 3

Question 5

“My spirit and my place have in them power to make this bitter to thee”

Answer 5

Act 1 scene 1

Question 6

My house is not a grange

Answer 6

act 1 scene 1