Othello 1.3

Question 1

“Valiant

Answer 1

Othello we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman.”-Duke
-Showing Othello is higher sought after and highly respected, unlike how Iago portrays him

Question 2

“the bloody

Answer 2

book of law you shall yourself read in the bitter letter”-Duke
-The duke goes back on this word once he finds out it is Othello, showing Othello’s value

Question 3

“To fall

Answer 3

in love with what she fear’d to look on”-Brabantio

• Insulting Othello
• later reinforces Othello’s doubts as others have had doubts from the start of their relationship

Question 4

“yet she

Answer 4

wish’d that heaven and made her such a man.”-Othello

• sexism
• Desdemona is unable to do anything that isn’t normal for a woman to do at that time.

Question 5

“She lov’d

Answer 5

me for he dangers I had pass’d, and I lov’d her that she did pitty them.”-Othello

• enjoying sympathy from someone who cares about him and his past as a person and does not see him as entertainment purposes
• feels betrayed when he believes Desdemona is having an affair and believes that she must never have genuinely cared

Question 6

“I do

Answer 6

perceive here a divided duty”-Desdemona

• to decide is to hurt one
• Sexism-she has to pick which man she is obedient to and she is not considered a person with free will

Question 7

“A man

Answer 7

he is of honest and trust.”-Othello

• Confirming that Othello doesn’t know about Iago
• Builds tension and suspense as you know that this will lead to Othello being tricked

Question 8

“Your son-in-law

Answer 8

is far more fair than black.”-Duke-

• saying that Othello’s pureness is due to his colour.
• Saying that white people are pure and good people and that generally bald people are not
• increasing Othello’s insecurity as he knows what is thought of him

Question 9

“She has

Answer 9

deceiv’d her father and may thee.”-Brabantio

• Beginning the plant seeds of doubt into Othello’s mind
• will later confirm Othello’s jealous thought further

Question 10

“My life

Answer 10

upon her faith!”-Othello
-Othello loses this trust in Desdemona further through the play showing how fully Othello truly believes Iago to give up this level of trust

Question 11

“I will

Answer 11

incontinently drown myself”-Roderigo
“No more of drowning do you hear?”-Iago
“Thus do I ever make my fool my purse”-Iago
“Snipe”-Iago
-appearance versus reality
-Iago is pretending to care for Roderigo when in reality he just wants to use him for his money

Question 12

“and it is

Answer 12

thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets he’s done my office”-Iago

• theme-jealousy
• there is no backing to this
• links to Emilia saying that men never have any actual reason to be jealous

Question 13

“The Moor

Answer 13

is of a free and open nature, that thinks men honest that but seem to be so”-Iago

• He thinks of Othello as gullible and too trusting of people
• Characteristation og Othello

Question 14

“Hell

Answer 14

and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light”-Iago