Iago Quotes

Question 1

Iago’s manipulation of Othello

Answer 1

“Strangle her in her bed” 4.1
“As he shall smile Othello shall go mad” 4.1
“Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ” 3.3
Repeating the end of Othello’s sentences “though echo’s me / As if there were some monster in thy thought” Othello, 3.3

Question 2

Iago’s treatment of women

Answer 2

Would she give you so much of her lips / As of her tongue she bestows on me / You’ll have enough - 2.1
You rise to play and got to bed to work - 2.1
Methinks it sounds a parley to provocation -2.3
Villainous whore! - 5.2

Question 3

Iago’s jealousy

Answer 3

‘Twixt my sheets he’s done my office’
‘Nothing shall content my soul till I am evened with him, wife for wife’
‘Oh,beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.’ 3.3

Question 4

Iago being two-faced

Answer 4

‘I am not what I am.’ 1.1
‘I follow him to serve my turn upon him.’ 1.1
‘Men should be what they seem.’ 3.3
‘I should be wise, for honesty’s a fool.’ 3.3
‘I am a very villain else.’ 4.1

Question 5

Iago’s disrespect for Emilia

Answer 5

‘Would she give you so much of her lips / as…she oft bestows on me / You’ll have enough’ 2.1
‘You rise to play and go to bed to work.’ 2.1
‘Iago stabs his wife.’ 5.2
‘Nothing but to please his fantasy’. Emilia
‘Good wench.’

Question 6

Iago’s view of Cassio

Answer 6

‘Mere prattle without practice.’ 1.1
‘I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth / Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio.’ 2.3
‘In sleep I heard him say…’ 2.3
‘A florentine’ 1.1