Critics 31-40

Question 1

31. Carol Phillips

Answer 1

‘Othello’s love of Desdemona is ‘the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war’

Question 2

32. Kieran Ryan

Answer 2

‘Iago’s most disturbing quality is that he is ‘THEATRICALLY IRRESISTABLE’

Question 3

33. Simon Bubb

Answer 3

‘Iago’s most powerful tool is his voice’

Question 4

34. Cox

Answer 4

Iago makes his superiors his puppets

Question 5

35. Bonnie Greer

Answer 5

‘it is only “Othello’s jealousy, not Iago’s hatred, that is the real tragedy’

Question 6

36. Andy Serkis

Answer 6

‘He is not the devil. He’s you or me being jealous and not being able to control our feelings’ - played Iago in 2002

Question 7

37. Loomba

Answer 7

Women and blacks exist as other

Question 8

38. T.S Elliot

Answer 8

‘Othello is responsible for his own downfall’

Question 9

39. Loomba (2)

Answer 9

‘Iago’s machinations are effective because Othello is predisposed to believing his pronouncements about the duplicity of women’

Question 10

40. Schlegel

Answer 10

‘Othello’s descent into murderous jealousy is not a shocking reversal, but is the inevitable return of an innately barbarous man to his ostensibly uncivilised roots’