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In Act 1 Scene 1, what racially offensive term does Roderigo label Othello?

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He references him by ‘thick lips’

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How does Iago equate the marriage of Othello and Desdemona to thievery in Act 1, Scene 1?

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He shouts ‘Look to your house, your daughter and your bags! Thieves! Thieves!’

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How does Iago use racist terms to brutalise the idea of sex between Othello and Desdemona to Brabantio in Act 1, Scene 1?

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He describes how ‘An old black ram is tupping your white ewe’

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In Act 1 Scene 1, how does Iago equate the act of sex between Othello and Desdemona to a monster?

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He says to Brabantio that ‘Your daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs’

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How is Iago presented as an open Machiavellian villain in Act 1, Scene 1?

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When Brabantio states ‘Thou art a villain’, he responds with ‘You are a senator’

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In Act 1 Scene 2, how does Brabantio accuse Othello of his ability to ‘win’ Desdemona?

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‘Thou hast practised on her with foul charms, abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals that weakens motion’

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In Act 1 Scene 2, how is a patriarchal impression of the marriage of Desdemona and Othello created?

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Othello states that he ‘won his daughter’

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How does Othello give Desdemona a voice in the court scene of Act 1 Scene 3?

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He states ‘Send for the lady.. and let her speak of me before her father’

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How is the strength of Othello’s trust in Desdemona demonstrated in Act 1 Scene 3?

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‘Let your sentence even fall upon my life’

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How does Othello summarise the nature of his courtship of Desdemona in Act 1 Scene 3?

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‘She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them’

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How does Desdemona defy her father in Act 1 Scene 3?

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‘You are Lord of all duty; but here’s my husband’

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How does the patriarch Brabantio warn Othello of Desdemona’s defiant nature?

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‘She has deceived her father, and may thee’

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How does Othello put his trust in Desdemona in the end of Act 1 Scene 3?

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He states ‘My life upon her faith’

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What is Iago’s prominent epithet, given to him by Othello in Act 1 Scene 3?

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‘Honest Iago’

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How does Iago describe Desdemona in relation to Venice at the end of Act 1 Scene 3?

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He calls her a ‘super-subtle Venetian’

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In Iago’s soliloquy of Act 2 Scene 1, how does he describe his plan to frame Cassio?

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‘With as little a web as this, I will ensnare as great a fly as Cassio’

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In Act 2, Scene 1, how does Iago describe Emilia?

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‘Sir, would she give you so much of her lips as her tongue she oft bestows on me, you would have enough’

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18
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How does Othello greet Desdemona in Act 2 Scene 1?

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‘O, my fair warrior!’

19
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In Act 2, Scene 3, what is Cassio most upset about following his removal from his lieutenant position?

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‘Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!’

20
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How does Shakespeare foreshadow Othello’s downfall in relation to Desdemona in Act 3 Scene 1?

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Othello states to Desdemona ‘I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again’

21
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How does Iago warn Othello of jealousy and create the leading theme of the play in Act 3 Scene 3?

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He says ‘Beware, my Lord, of jealousy. It is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on’

22
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How does Othello describe his deteriorating mental stability and happiness to Iago in Act 3 Scene 3?

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He cries ‘Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content, farewell the plumed troops.. Farewell! Othello’s occupation gone!’

23
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In Act 3, Scene 3, what does Othello describe as being lost to him as a result of Desdemona’s infidelity?

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‘Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!’

24
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How does Othello describe his wish to stay ignorant to Desdemona’s ‘infidelity’ to Iago in Act 3, Scene 3?

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‘He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen’

25
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In Act 3, Scene 3, how is Othello’s disgust as Desdemona’s infidelity expressed to Iago?

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‘Her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now as begrimed and black as mine own face’

26
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How does Shakespeare create the theme of witchcraft in Othello’s speech in Act 3, Scene 3?

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‘Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!’

27
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In Act 3, Scene 3, how does Othello bind himself to Iago in their ‘marriage’?

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‘Now thou art my lieutenant, I am your own forever’

28
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In Act 3, Scene 4, what proto-feminist attitude does Emilia display on women as disposable?

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‘They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; they eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they belch us’

29
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What stage direction does Shakespeare use for Othello in Act 4 Scene 1 to demonstrate him emulating Iago?

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[Aside] repeated 4x

30
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How does Othello describe the Desdemona he believed he married to Iago in Act 4 Scene 1?

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‘A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet woman!’

31
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How does Othello accuse Desdemona of infidelity and relate her actions to religion to incite fear in Act 4 Scene 2?

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‘Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell’

32
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How does Desdemona reiterate the marriage bond between her and Othello in Act 4 Scene 2 despite his changing attitudes?

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‘If you have lost him, I have lost him too’

33
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How does Shakespeare parallel Iago’s accusations of Desdemona’s status as a Venetian to emphasise Othello’s emulating his behaviour in Act 4 Scene 2?

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Othello states :‘I cry you mercy then; I took you for that cunning whore of Venice that married Othello’

34
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How does Emilia describe a protofeminist perspective on female infidelity in Act 4 Scene 3?

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‘Nor I neither in this heavenly light; I might do’t as well i’th’dark’

35
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In Act 4, Scene 3, how does Emilia address Jacobean cuckolding?

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‘Who would not make her husband a cuckold, to make him a monarch? I should venture purgatory for’t?’

36
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In Act 4, Scene 3, how does Emilia conclude her protofeminist speech and demonstrate an element of blame in the behaviours of the men of the novel?

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‘And have we not affections, desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? Then let them use us well; else let them know the ills we do, their ills instruct us so’

37
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How is the class divide and misogyny demonstrated in the interactions between Emilia and Bianca in Act 5 Scene 1?

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Emilia shouts ‘Fie upon thee, strumpet!’ and Emilia responds ‘I am no strumpet, but of life as honest as you that thus abuse me’

38
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How does Othello reference religion in his final attempts to offer Desdemona an element of redemption in Act 5 Scene 2?

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He tells her he ‘would not kill thy unpreparèd spirit; I would not kill thy soul’

39
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How does Othello reflect the misogynistic language of Iago in his killing of Desdemona in Act 5, Scene 2?

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‘Out, strumpet!.. Down, strumpet!’

40
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How does Shakespeare reiterate Othello’s role as the tragic hero of a revenge tragedy in Act 5 Scene 2?

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‘Then murders out of tune, and sweet revenge grows harsh?’

41
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How does Desdemona express her undying loyalty to Othello in her final words of the play?

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‘Farewell, commend me to my kind lord. O, farewell!’

42
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How does Othello complete his own tragic downfall through his quality of honesty in Act 5 Scene 2?

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‘She’s like a liar gone to burning hell; twas I that killed her’

43
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How does Shakespeare finalise Othello’s role as a tragic hero in the final moments of Act 5 Scene 2?

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‘You must speak of one that loved not wisely, but too well; of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, perplexed in the extreme’

44
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In Act 3, Scene 3, how does Othello relate the pain of heartbreak to physical anguish?

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‘If I do prove her haggard, thou that her jesses were my dear heart strings’

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