critics

Question 1

iago
E A G L S O P

Answer 1

‘enjoys a god-like sense of power’
honigmann

Question 2

desdemona
A P C
A F
L O W, H W A H P

Answer 2

• ‘a poor chicken’ ‘a fool’ ‘lack of wit, her weakness and her passivity’ thomas ryder 17th century

Question 3

iago
N F N U S I T B O H B T

Answer 3

honigmann
‘neither felt nor understood spritual impulses that bind ordinary human beings together’

Question 4

iago
C T H V

Answer 4

honigmann
cleverer than his victims

Question 5

iago
E I S T T, N L T S

Answer 5

honigmann
excels in short term tactics, not long term strategy

Question 6

iago
P C H

Answer 6

honigmann
‘play’s chief humorist’

Question 7

racism
I A P T A A J

Answer 7

loomba
irrational and prone to anger and jealousy
black and muslim perception at the time

Question 8

brabantio
S C B I N P

Answer 8

‘such colour-blindness is not possible’
loomba

Question 9

othello and desdemona relationship
U R

Answer 9

‘“unnatural” relationship
loomba

Question 10

othello
V O R B P B H B A A O M O

Answer 10

loomba
‘victim of racial beliefs precisely because he becomes an agent of misogynistic ones’

Question 11

othello
D B T T W O A I W H T P L

Answer 11

leavis
dies belonging to the world of action in which his true part lay

Question 12

othello
T P

Answer 12

leavis
tragically pathetic
after realisation, ‘where shall othello go?’

Question 13

othello
S N

Answer 13

leavis
‘simple nature’

Question 14

othello
H H O E A

Answer 14

leavis
‘his habit of effortless authority’

Question 15

desdemona
S C D N W. S C R E I S

Answer 15

bradley
she can do nothing whatever. she cannot retaliate even in speech

Question 16

desdemona
S S

Answer 16

samuel johnson 18th century
soft simplicity

Question 17

emilia
M-P O R F A

Answer 17

jardine
mouth-piece of repressed female anger

Question 18

emilia
M C O T P

Answer 18

moral centre of the play
honigmann

Question 19

emilia
C I N H O O

Answer 19

neely
complicit in her own oppression
(complicity in Iago/hankercheif

Question 20

cassio
A U F T O

Answer 20

an uncorrupted foil to othello
honigmann

Question 21

cassio
E A W C

Answer 21

essentially a weak character
auden

Question 22

cassio
C A O T P O V S

Answer 22

cassio acts out the prejudices of venetian society
loomba

Question 23

cassio
C P I A C T O W

Answer 23

cassio participates in a culture that objectifies women
neely

Question 24

bianca
D M - B G A B H A S A

Answer 24

‘doubly marginalised - by gender and by her assumed sexual availability’

Question 25

love A I T W O I A W V

Answer 25

an illusion to which Othello is a willing victim leavis

Question 26

love A L T S T B A S P R T A P

Answer 26

a love that sees the beloved as a prize rather than a partner french

Question 27

jealousy J I T R V I O

Answer 27

jealousy is the real villain in othello honigmann

Question 28

truth and deception I S L I H A T M O T H A H

Answer 28

iago success lies in his ability to make others trust him as honest honigmann

Question 29

truth and deception O D H O O S

Answer 29

othello depends heavily on outwards signs loomba

Question 30

desdemona D O V T

Answer 30

defiance of venetian taboo kieran ryan