Othello

Question 1

3.3 Iago

Answer 1

In Venice they let God see the pranks they dare not show their husbands

Question 2

1.3 Brabantio

Answer 2

‘Moor if thou hast eyes to see, she deceived her father and may thee’

Question 3

3.3 In the temptation scene, Iago speaks and Othello is convinced

Answer 3

‘She did deceive her father’

Othello replies: ‘So she did’

Question 4

Iago’s age

Answer 4

four times 7

Question 5

Iago on Othello and Desdemona

Answer 5

‘A frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian and super subtle venetian’

Question 6

Desdemona doesn’t want to leave Othello

Answer 6

‘Did love the moor’ ‘bereft to leave him’

Question 7

Othello is impotent and basically doesn’t just want Desdemona for sex

Answer 7

‘Vouch with me heaven. Not to please the palate of my appetite’ ‘in my defunct’

Question 8

Othello loves order

Answer 8

When Iago is slagging off Roderigo saying he ‘spoke such scurvy against your honour’ and said he wished he ‘yerked him under the ribs’ Othello responds with ‘Tis better as it is’.
Later when Brabantio’s men come for him he says ‘put down your bright swords, dew will rust them’ showing he doesnt want to fight.
This is further echoed when he says ‘Are we turned turks…for Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl’ after the fight scene of Act 2 scene 3.

Question 9

Desdemona’s names for Othello

Answer 9

My fair warrior

Question 10

When Desdemona meets Othello again after the journey

Answer 10

‘The heavens forbid but that our love and comfort should grow as our days increase’

Question 11

Percentage of Iago in the play

Answer 11

Iago has ‘32.5% of the words’ and ‘43% of the lines’

Question 12

The role of ensign

Answer 12

Iago is ensign. Othello trusts ‘my wife’ with ‘my ancient’’. ensign is actually not as low a role as people today may be led to believe, in fact it is actually 3rd in command.

Question 13

How many times is Iago called honest

Answer 13

56

Question 14

When does Othello first call Iago honest

Answer 14

act 1.3. He says he trusts Iago with his wife because he is a man of ‘honesty and trust’

Question 15

Why does Iago think it is wrong that he hasnt been chosen for lieutenant

Answer 15

‘Not I for I love duty’

Question 16

How does Iago see human constructs

Answer 16

‘Virtue is a fig. Our bodies are gardens to which our wills are gardeners’ reputation is ‘an idle and most false imposition’ love is ‘merely lust of blood and permission of the will’

Question 17

what is one motive of Iago specifically to do with Emilia

Answer 17

‘I hate the moor and it is thought abroad that he betwixt my sheets’

Question 18

How does Iago try to make out that Othello is an irresponsible leader

Answer 18

Iago says our general cast us thus early for the love of his Desdemona

Question 19

What does Othello say when they are first meant to consummate their marriage

Answer 19

‘come, my dear love the profits made, the fruits ensue the profits’

Question 20

what does Othello say to ensure that Desdemona is dead

Answer 20

‘Cold, cold my girl? even like thy chastity’

Question 21

How does Othello back up his love for Desdemona

Answer 21

‘For I love the gentle Desdemona that I would not my unhoused free condition put into circumpscription for the seas worth’

Question 22

How long has Othello lived as a civililian

Answer 22

‘Nine moons’

Question 23

How does Iago describe Cassio’s bachelor status

Answer 23

‘A fellow almost damned in fair wife’ The fact he is damned is interesting, shows that he thinks marriage is a curse.

Question 24

What does Othello say of marriage

Answer 24

‘O curse of marriage’

Question 25

Bianca

Answer 25

Her name is ironic. Also, she is described as a ‘hussy’ - original was a huswife so some have argued that she is not a prostitute
Iago says of her ‘I never knew a woman love a man so’
Cassio calls her a bauble

Question 26

What does Emilia think of men

Answer 26

‘But I do think it is their husband’s fault if wives fo fall, let husbands know their wives have sense like them’ the stomachs and food bit

Question 27

What does Othello say once he has realised

Answer 27

‘Of one that lov’d not wisely but too well;

Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplex’d in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian’

Question 28

Willow song

Answer 28

It brings Desdemona and Emilia together and then Desdemona sings it on her death bed.
“The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,

(Sing all a green willow, willow willow willow,)’

Question 29

what does Othello say about himself regarding race

Answer 29

‘I am black’
‘discarded into the vale of years’
Desdemona’s ‘name’ is now ‘begrimed and black as mine own face’

Question 30

Desdemona on Othello’s race

Answer 30

‘Visage in my mind’ Basically she doesnt see colour

Question 31

Duke on Othello’s race

Answer 31

‘your son in law is more black than fair’

Question 32

How do we see Othello deteriorate and become more and more like Iago

Answer 32

at the beginning of his soliquy in act 3 scene 3 othello merely says he wants to ‘let her down into the wind’ basically kick her down but not kill her by the end of the speech he is screaming for ‘Blood blood blood’ not just hers but Cassio’s too.

Question 33

Is Othello’s killing of Desdemona premeditated

Answer 33

It is not just a crime passional. He is thinking of it and it consumes him he says to her ‘get you to bed/ on instant’ and then ‘dismiss your maiden’ it wasn’t in the moment.

Question 34

How does Othello react when he finds out that Cassio isn’t dead

Answer 34

‘Cassio not killed? then murders out of tune and sweet revenge grows harsh’

Question 35

What does Desdemona say when she revives for a moment

Answer 35

‘O falsely, falsely murdered’

Question 36

Emilia and Desdemona’s exchange when she revives again

Answer 36

‘a guiltless death I die’
Emilia responds ‘who has done this deed’
Desdemona says ‘nobody, I myself farewell. commend me to my Kind Lord.

Question 37

What does Othello say when he admits that he killed her

Answer 37

‘She’s like a liar gone to burning hell! Twas I that killed her’
‘turned to folly’ and ‘was a whore’
‘False as water’
‘Cassio did tup her’
‘grounds’ were ‘just’
She was covered by ‘the slime that sticks on filthy deeds’

Question 38

Iago

Answer 38

‘In following him, I follow but myself’

Question 39

Iago sounds almost mad as he says this

Answer 39

‘Put money in thy purse’ repeats to Roderigo

Question 40

Iago in Act 1.3

Answer 40

‘I hate the moor’

Question 41

Iago in the temptation scene on Jealousy

Answer 41

‘Beware my lord of Jealousy, it is the green eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feeds on’

Question 42

On the handkerchief

Answer 42

‘Give it to me, I have use for it’

Question 43

Kneeling scene

Answer 43

Pseudo marriage. ‘do not rise yet’ he is commanding Othello

Question 44

Kneeling scene

Answer 44

I am your own forever

Question 45

What Iago calls Emilia before killing her

Answer 45

‘villainous whore’

Question 46

Roderigo quotes

Answer 46

what a full fortune does the thick lips owe- angry about Othello
signor Brabantio- sign of respect to Brbantio
this poor trash of venice- what Iago calls him
o damned Iago
o inhuman dog- realises he was the enemy
To the gross clasps of the lascivious moor
I will incontinently drown myself
‘who hast my purse as if it were his’
‘Find some occasion to anger Cassio he’s rash and very sudden in choler’