Emilia Quotes

Question 1

On gender double standards

Answer 1

“Let husbands know / Their wives have sense like them.” (Act 4, Scene 3)

Question 2

Refusing to stay silent

Answer 2

“I will speak as liberal as the north.” (Act 5, Scene 2)

Question 3

Calling out Othello after the murder

Answer 3

“O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!” (Act 5, Scene 2)

Question 4

Her final defiance

Answer 4

“So speaking as I think, alas, I die.” (Act 5, Scene 2)

Question 5

Exposing Iago’s plot

Answer 5

“You told a lie, an odious, damnèd lie!” (Act 5, Scene 2)

Question 6

Critiquing gendered injustice

Answer 6

“They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, / They belch us.” (Act 3, Scene 4)

Question 7

Her quiet truth about marriage

Answer 7

“Tis proper I obey him—but not now.” (Act 5, Scene 2)

Question 8

Gifting the handkerchief (unknowingly aiding Iago)

Answer 8

“I nothing but to please his fantasy.” (Act 3, Scene 3)

Question 9

Describing Desdemona

Answer 9

“She was heavenly true.” (Act 5, Scene 2)

Question 10

Loyalty in death

Answer 10

“Lay me by my mistress’ side.” (Act 5, Scene 2)