characters

Question 1

1. Desdemona

Answer 1

‘the soft simplicity of Desdemona…her slowness to suspect that she can be suspected’
Johnson

Question 2

1. Iago

Answer 2

‘motive hunting of motiveless malignanty’ Coleridge

Question 3

1. Othello

Answer 3

‘the fiery openness of Othello… boundless in his confidence, ardent in his affection, inflexible in his resolution, and obdurate in his revenge’
Johnson

Question 4

2. Iago

Answer 4

‘the cool malignity of Iago, silent in his resentment, subtle in his designs’
Johnson

Question 5

2. Desdemona

Answer 5

‘is killed not only by Othello and Iago but by all those who see her humiliated and beaten in public, and fail to intervene’
Vanita

Question 6

3. Desdemona

Answer 6

ardent with the courage and idealism of a saint’
A.C. Bradley

Question 7

3. Iago

Answer 7

‘passionless character, all will in intellect’
Coleridge