Othello - Othello

Question 1

Othello as a tragic figure

Answer 1

• “Your noble self”
• “put the Moor at least into a jealousy so strong that judgement cannot cure”
• “A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman!” / “Let her rot and perish”
• “Have you prayed tonight Desdemon?” / “I would not kill thy unprepared spirit”
• “Sweet soul”
• “Thou mak’st me call what I intend to do a murder, which I thought a sacrifice.”
• “He stabs himself”

Question 2

Othello as culpable for his demise

Answer 2

• “Valiant Othello”
• “is of a constant, loving, noble nature”

Question 3

Othello as the black other

Answer 3

• “By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks”
• “Against all rules of nature”
• “her own clime, complexion and degree” / “One may smell in such a will most rank, foul disproportion”
• “Happy, for I am black”
• “I gave her such a one: ‘twas my first gift”

Question 4

Othello’s masculinity

Answer 4

• “I have a pain upon my forehead here”
• “I’ll tear her all to pieces!”
• “A horned man’s a monster and a beast.”
• “I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me!”
• “Devil! (he strikes her)”
• “He is much changed.”
• “She must die, else she’ll betray more men”
• “An honourable murderer… for naught did I in hate, but all in honour”

Question 5

Ideal love with Desdemona

Answer 5

• “Let her have your voice”
• “O, my fair warrior!” / “My dear Othello!”
• “If it were now to die, ‘Twere now to be most happy”/ “our loves and comforts should increase even as our days do grow”
• “is of a constant, loving, noble nature”