Othello Quotes

Question 1

setting quotes

Answer 1

a street at night

action moves to Cyprus

Question 2

storm symbolism

Answer 2

hath ruffianed so upon the sea

a fuller blast ne’er shook our battlements

Question 3

handkerchief symbolism

Answer 3

this was her first remembrance of the moor

such a handkerchief…did i today see Cassio wipe his beard with

Question 4

light symbolism

Answer 4

beginning “Othello enters with torches”

Act 5 Scene 2 “Othello enters with a light” showing the purity within

Iago “enters with candles” mimicking

Question 5

white sheets symbolism

Answer 5

my bed my wedding sheets

Question 6

Emila symbol

Answer 6

let husbands know their wives have sense like them

the ills we do their ills instruct us so

Question 7

medicine imagery

Answer 7

the moor already changes with my poison

my med’cine works!

Question 8

animal/beast imagery

Answer 8

damned inhuman dog - Roderigo to Iago

I’d had rather be a toad…than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses

if thoust be a devil, I cannot kill thee - referring to Iago

if that the earth could teem with womans tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile - Othello to Desdemona

Question 9

Iago’s soliloquies/asides

dramatic irony

Answer 9

i hate the moor

i will in Cassio’s lodgings lose this napkin and let him find it

abuse Othello’s ears

I do suspect the lusty moor hath leaped into my seat

Question 10

Presentation of Desdemona

Answer 10

th’essential vesture of creation

Nobody; I myself. Farewell.

His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint, my love.

Question 11

Presentation of Othello

Answer 11

beginning - peace, love
act 4 - i will chop her into messes

beginning - my dear love
act 4 - she is a whore, let her rot and perish (unsophisticated language)

Question 12

language of law

Answer 12

I’ll perform it to the last article

thy solicitor shall rather die

i give thee warrant