Othello

Question 1

What are the Act 1 Scene 1 quotes? (12)

Answer 1

1. R: “Tush! Never tell me; I take it much unkindly that thou, Iago… shouldst know of this”
2. I: “I know my price, I am worth no worse a place”
3. I: “as loving his own pride and purposes”
4. I: “One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, that never set a squadron in the field”
5. I: “And I – God bless the mark! – his Moorship’s ancient!”
6. I: “Thieves! Thieves! Thieves!”
7. I: “an old black ram is tupping your white ewe”
8. B: “I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors”
9. B: “My daughter is not for thee”
10. R: “your fair daughter”
11. R: “to the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor”
12. B: “O treason of the blood!”

Question 2

What are the Act 1 Scene 2 quotes? (4)

Answer 2

1. O: “’Tis better as it is”
2. O: “I love the gentle Desdemona”
3. O: “my parts, my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly”
4. B: “thou has enchanted her”

Question 3

What are the Act 1 Scene 3 quotes? (7)

Answer 3

1. B: “stol’n from me,”
2. O: “I won his daughter”
3. O: “let her speak of me before her father”
4. D: “let me go with him”
5. O: “she is mine”
6. R: “What should I do?”
7. I: “it is though abroad, that ‘twixt me sheets”

Question 4

What are the quotes for Act 2 Scene 1? (13)

Answer 4

1. D: “Alas, she has no speech”
2. I: “you rise to play and go to bed to work”
3. D: “do not learn of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband”
4. I: “with as little web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio”
5. I: “strip you out of you lieutenantry”
6. O: “o my fair warrior!”
7. D: “my dear Othello!”
8. O: “it gives me wonder great as my content to see you here before me”
9. O: “I fear, my soul hath her content so absolute that not another comfort like to this succeeds in unknown fate”
10. I: “- first, I must tell thee this – Desdemona is directly in love with him”
11. I: displanting of Cassio”
12. I: “wife for wife”
13. I: “for I fear Cassio with my night-cap too”

Question 5

What are the quotes for Act 2 Scene 3? (4)

Answer 5

1. I: “it’s true, good lieutenant” “and so do I too, lieutenant”
2. O: “Iago, who bagan’t?”
3. C: “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!”
4. I: “reputation is an idle and most false imposition”

Question 6

What are the quotes for Act 3 Scene 3? (11)

Answer 6

1. O: “I will deny thee nothing”
2. D: “I am obedient”
3. O: “Excellent wretch!”
4. O: “But I do love thee! And when I love thee not, chaos is come again”
5. O: “I’ll see before I doubt”
6. I: “of her own clime, complexion, and degree”
7. O: “give me the ocular proof”
8. O: “O monstrous! Monstrous!”
9. O: “I’ll tear her all to pieces”
10. I: “handkerchief spotted with strawberries in your wife’s hand?”
11. O: “O, blood, blood, blood!”

Question 7

What are the quotes for Act 3 Scene 4? (2)

Answer 7

1. O: “The handkerchief!”
2. B: “this is some token from a newer friend: to the felt absence now I feel a cause: is’t come to this”

Question 8

What are the quotes for Act 4 Scene 1? (8)

Answer 8

1. O: “handkerchief – confessions – handkerchief! … handkerchief! – O devil! (falls in a trance)”
2. B: “This is some minx’s token”
3. B: “there; give it your hobby-horse”
4. O: “How shall I murder him, Iago?”
5. O: “let her rot, and perish,”
6. O: “hang her!”
7. O: “I will chop her into messes”
8. O: “(striking her) Devil!”

Question 9

What are the quotes for Act 4 Scene 2? (4)

Answer 9

1. O: “heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell”
2. O: “strumpet!”
3. I: “removing of Cassio”
4. R: “I will hear further reason for this”

Question 10

What are the quotes for Act 4 Scene 3? (2)

Answer 10

1. E: “the world’s a huge thing: it is a great price. For a small vice”
2. D: “I do not think there is any such woman”

Question 11

What are the quotes for Act 5 Scene 1? (2)

Answer 11

1. R: “I have no great devotion to the deed; and yet he hath given me satisfying reasons”
2. B: “O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!”

Question 12

What are the quotes for Act 5 Scene 2? (12)

Answer 12

1. O: “yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men”
2. O: “I will kill thee, and love thee after”
3. O: “I that am cruel am yet merciful”
4. O: “my wife! My wife! What wife? I have no wife”
5. O: “whore”
6. I: “go to, charm your tongue”
7. E: “I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak”
8. E: “villainy, villainy, villainy!”
9. E: “I thought so then: - I’ll kill myself for grief:”
10. E: “’tis proper I obey him, but not now”
11. I: “Villainous whore!”
12. O: “O fool! Fool! Fool!”