Iago

Question 1

EAJ Honigmann describes Iago as ‘a liar, betrayer and mental torturer’

Answer 1

AGREE:
‘I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at. I am not what I am’ (Act 1, Scene 1)

‘As I am an honest man’ (Act 2, Scene 3)

‘Did Michael Cassio, when you woed my lady, know of your love?’ (Act 3, Scene 3)

Question 2

Thomas Ryder describes Iago as ‘too evil to be believed’

Answer 2

AGREE:
‘Your daughter and the moor are now making the beast with two backs’ (Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 3

Adamson claims Iago to be ‘more a catalyst that precipitates destruction rather than the devil that causes it’

Answer 3

AGREE:
‘She did deceive her father marrying you’ (Act 3, Scene 3)

‘O beware my lord of jealousy; it is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on’ (Act 3, Scene 3)

‘An old black ram is tupping your white ewe’ (Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 4

Frank Kerrode claims that Iago’s language is ‘at its core…filth’

Answer 4

AGREE:

‘An old black ram is tupping your white ewe’ 9Act 1, Scene 1)

‘Housewives in your beds…you rise to play and go to bed to work’ (Act 2, Scene 1)

Question 5

Fintan O’Toole claims that ‘Iago’s brilliance lies in not what he puts into Othello’s mind, but what he draws out of it’