On female characters

Question 1

Honigmann

Answer 1

“It is possible to see her [Desdemona] as the strongest, most heroic person in the play”

Question 2

Rymer

Answer 2

“This may be a warning to all good wives that they look well to their Linen”

Question 3

Phillips

Answer 3

Othello’s love of Desdemona “is the love of a possession m. She is a prize, a spoilt of war”

Question 4

Tennenhouse

Answer 4

Desdemona’s smothering is an “example of the silencing of the female political voice”