Othello A5

Question 1

A5:1 - Iago: ‘Every way…

Answer 1

…makes my gain’.

• Whoever dies, his cause will be served.

Question 2

[Iago wounds Cassio…

Answer 2

…from behind.]

Question 3

[Enter, Iago…

Answer 3

…with a light]

Question 4

A5:1 -Othello: ‘thy bed, lust-stained,…

Answer 4

…shall with lust’s blood be spotted.’

Question 5

A5:1 -Iago: ‘guiltiness will speak…

Answer 5

… / Though tongues were out of use’

• Iago tries to implicate Bianca by exploiting her low status and ‘immoral’ occupation.

Question 6

A5:1 -Iago: ‘This is the night that…

Answer 6

…either makes me or fordoes me quite.’

Question 7

A5:2 -Othello: ‘Yet she must die, …

Answer 7

…else she’ll betray more men’

Question 8

A5:2 -Othello: ‘I know not where…

Answer 8

…is that Promethean heat’

Question 9

A5:2 -Othello: ‘That dost almost persuade…

Answer 9

…Justice to break her sword’

Question 10

A5:2 -Othello: ‘I will kill thee…

Answer 10

…/ And love thee after.’

Question 11

A5:2 -Othello: ‘If you bethink yourself of any crime…

Answer 11

…Solicit for it straight.’

Question 12

Othello: ‘Think on…

Answer 12

…thy sins.’ 5:2

Question 13

A5:2 -Othello: ‘[thou] makest me call what I intend to do…

Answer 13

…a murder, which I thought a sacrifice!’

Question 14

[He smothers…

Answer 14

…her]

Question 15

A5:2 -Othello: ‘My wife, my wife! What wife?…

Answer 15

…I have no wife’

Question 16

A5:2 -Othello: ‘murder’s…

Answer 16

…out of tune.’

Question 17

A5:2 Des: ‘Nobody, …

Answer 17

…I myself, / Farewell’

Question 18

A5:2 -Emilia: ‘O the more angel she, …

Answer 18

…and you the blacker devil!’

Question 19

A5:2 -Emilia: ‘Villainy hath made…

Answer 19

…mocks with love!’

Question 20

A5:2 -Emilia: ‘I care not…

Answer 20

…for thy sword.’

Question 21

A5:2 -Othello: ‘nought I did in hate, …

Answer 21

…but all in honour’

Question 22

A5:2 - Iago: ‘I told him…

Answer 22

…what I thought’

• Even his confession is dishonest.

Question 23

A5:2 -Emilia: ‘I will not charm…

Answer 23

…my tongue.’

Question 24

[Iago tries to…

Answer 24

…stab Emilia]

• He then succeeds.

Question 25

A5:2 -Othello: ‘Who can control…

Answer 25

…his fate’

Question 26

A5:2 -Othello: ‘That’s he…

Answer 26

…that was Othello’

Question 27

A5:2 -Othello: ‘If that thou be’st…

Answer 27

…a devil, I cannot kill thee.’ [he wounds Iago]

Question 28

A5:2 -Iago: ‘I bleed sir…

Answer 28

…but not killed’

Question 29

A5:2 -Othello: ‘nought I did in hate, …

Answer 29

…but all in honour.’

Question 30

A5:2 -Iago: ‘From this time forth…

Answer 30

…I will never speak a word.’

Question 31

A5:2 -Othello: ‘a malignant and turbanned Turk…

Answer 31

…beat a Venetian and traduced the state’ - Iago is presented as a Turk. The enemy within.

Question 32

Bianca: 'I am no strumpet...

Answer 32

...But of life as honest as you that thus abuse me.' A5:2

Question 33

Iago to Emilia: 'villainous...

Answer 33

...whore' 5,2

Question 34

Emilia about Iago: 'odious, ...

Answer 34

... damned lie' 5,2

Question 35

Lodovico (about Iago's effect on Othello): 'fallen in the practice...

Answer 35

...of a cursed slave' 5,2

Question 36

O: 'demand that demi-devil why he...

Answer 36

...hath thus ensnared my soul and body? 5,2

Question 37

L: 'for this slave if there be any cunning cruelty..

Answer 37

...that can torment him much and hold him long, it shall be his' 5,2

Question 38

C: 'look on the tragic...

Answer 38

...loading of this bed' 5,2

Question 39

Emilia to Bianca: 'O fie upon thee...

Answer 39

...strumpet' 5,1

Question 40

I: 'this is the fruits...

Answer 40

...of whoring' 5,1

Question 41

I: 'guiltiness will speak...

Answer 41

...though tongues were out of use' 5,1

Question 42

O: 'I'll not shed her blood...

Answer 42

...nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow' 5,2

Question 43

O: 'If i quench thee...

Answer 43

...I can again thy former light restore' 5,2

Question 44

O: 'Cassio did...

Answer 44

...top her' 5,2

Question 45

O: 'An honest man he is, ...

Answer 45

... and hates the slime that sticks on filthy deeds' 5,2

Question 46

Iago: 'I do suspect this trash...

Answer 46

...To be a party in this injury' 5,1

Question 47

What is the significance of 'snow' and 'alabaster'?

Answer 47

They are cold and featureless. He perhaps feels Desdemona has not given proper empathy to him, instead choosing to champion Cassio.

Question 48

Why is Othello's mindset dichotomous?

Answer 48

He struggles to see things in any other way than binary oppositions, perhaps a consequence of his treatment as an outsider.

Question 49

How is Othello an outsider in a new way by Act 5.2?

Answer 49

He is ideologically isolated as well as culturally isolated. Ensnared by Iago completely, impersonates justice to