QUOTES

Question 1

Iago — Hopkins

Answer 1

‘His repressed homosexual desire motivates him’

Question 2

Iago — Spinak

Answer 2

Plays the role of a ‘vice’ — disagree cus he has motives

Question 3

Iago — Johnson

Answer 3

‘He is from the first scene to the last hated and despised’ — by the audience BUT he’s quite funny so

Question 4

Iago — Roberts

Answer 4

‘a white character, he blackens everything and everyone’

Question 5

Iago — Price

Answer 5

‘Iago wears his heart openly, he is able to gain Othello’s trust… but his heart is not what it appears to be’

Question 6

Othello — Long

Answer 6

Othello suffers a ‘collapse of the personality’ — he loses his identity so yeah

Question 7

Othello — Barker

Answer 7

‘an idealist turned misogynist’ — through Iago’s manipulation (supporting critic)

Question 8

Desdemona — Honigmann

Answer 8

‘a woman as a man likes to reinvent her’ — victim to what everyone thought she was (gonna be silent, subservient) but wasn’t + men around her forced their beliefs on her (Iago, Othello)

Question 9

Desdemona — Jardine

Answer 9

‘Passive victim’ — disagree —> active in her own story, subverted Jacobean/Elizabethan

Question 10

Desdemona — Phillips

Answer 10

‘is the love of a possession. She is a prize, the spoil of war’ — sexualisation of her, beauty over mind

Question 11

Emilia — Newman

Answer 11

‘in her death, Emilia’s fate parallels that of her mistress’ — both victims of the patriarchal society (even though their from different classes)

Question 12

Emilia — Johnstone

Answer 12

‘in her dying moments, Emilia continues to defend her right, as a woman, to speech’ —> yes, subverts Jacobean expectations of women, disobeys/betrays Iago

Question 13

Cassio — Walker

Answer 13

‘Cassio is a beautifully written foil to the general’ — everything Othello wishes he was, Othello without otherness/ Cassio has confidence, he is his foil

Question 14

Bianca & Cassio — Waghorn

Answer 14

‘Shows Cassio in a different light’

Question 15

Othello — Ania Loomba (white patriarchy)

Answer 15

‘Challenges his white patriarchy’ — by existing, black person in position of power —> changes to conform to stereotypes tho

Question 16

Othello — Wheale

Answer 16

‘Othello is incapable of any reciprocally loving relationship… beyond the masculine codes of behaviour that created him’ — loves Desdemona AT the start BUT loses his ability due to Iago’s manipulation

Question 17

Othello — Ania Loomba (race)

Answer 17

‘A Muslim Othello would be more dangerous than a black Othello for an English audience’ — context point

Question 18

Women — Cowell

Answer 18

‘Tragedy arises from the horror of female sexuality’ — cuckolding! What!

Question 19

Women — Neely

Answer 19

‘Women were expected to be silent and obedient’ — shock with Emilia (final scene), shock with Bianca (SUBVERTS), surprise with Desdemona (cus of fighting for Cassio)

Question 20

Woman — Blienman

Answer 20

‘The general male attitude throughout the play is that women are pure and innocent… or vulgar, common and on the same level as animals’ — Othello start vs end, Iago vs Othello

Question 21

Race — Olers

Answer 21

‘For a black man to be somewhat noble in the west, he would have had to have been somewhat neutralised’ — converted to Christianity, his eloquence

Question 22

Race — Ania Loomba

Answer 22

‘Women and black people are others in this society’ — facts!

Question 23

Jealousy — Bradley

Answer 23

‘the subject of sexual jealousy rising to the pitch of passion’ — Othello’s change in relationship w Dezzy, as he gets more suspicious/passionate his sexual jealousy gets more intense

Question 24

Jealousy — Honingmann

Answer 24

‘Jealousy is the monster of the imagination’ — Othello being led astray by Iago (go along w jealousy is the green-eyed monster quote)

Question 25

Jealousy — Flanagan

Answer 25

‘jealousy drives most of the actions in Othello’ — facts (Iago jealous of Cassio, Othello jealous of Cassio)

Question 26

Iago — Cox

Answer 26

Iago ‘make his superiors his puppets’