Emilia Quotes

Question 1

Emilia jealousy quote

Answer 1

‘Jealous souls will not be answered so…they are not ever jealous for the cause but jealous for they’re jealous.’ 3.4
‘It is a monster / Begot upon itself.’ 3.4

Question 2

Emilia’s commitment to Desdemona

Answer 2

‘Lay me by my mistress’ side’ 5.2
‘Oh, the more angel she, / And you the blacker devil.’ 5.2
‘Thou art rash as fire, / To say that she was false.” 5.2
‘Hath she forsook so many noble matches, / Her father and her country, and friends, / To be called ‘whore’?’ 4.2
‘I will not charm my tongue, I am bound to speak.’ 5.2

Question 3

Emilia’s nascent feminism

Answer 3

‘They are all but stomachs, and we all but food. / To eat us hunger lay, and when they are full, They belch us.’ 3.4
‘Why, who would not make her husband a cuckhold to make him a / monarch.’ 4.3
‘But I do think it is their husbands’ faults if wives do fall.’ 4.3
‘Let husbands know their wives have sense like them.’ 4.3
‘I will not charm my tongue, I am bound to speak.’ 5.2

Question 4

‘Though art rash as fire, to say that she was false.’ 5.2

Answer 4

• Emilia is accusatory & this stands as a testament to her and Desdemona’s relationship
• ‘fire’ represents how quickly Othello’s jealousy grew & turned into hatred
• Emilia’s nascent feminism comes hand in hand with her relationship with Desdemona, causing her world view which was previously centred around male importance to change