1:3

Question 1

‘valiant Moor’
‘valiant’ repeated
page 218

Answer 1

The first senator says
Link to professional status

Question 2

‘she is abused, stolen from me and corrupted’
page 219

Answer 2

Brabantio says
Link to the repeated idea of abused, great chain of importance, patriarchy

Question 3

‘I won his daughter’
page 221

‘and she mine’
page 223

Answer 3

Othello says
Context of women being possessions

Question 4

‘a maiden never bold’
page 221

‘to fall in love with what she feared to look on?’

‘practices of cunning hell’

Answer 4

Brabantio says
Link to how Desdemona proves her father wrong
the stereotype of the moor

Question 5

‘to please the palate of my appetite’
page 231

Answer 5

Othello says
Link to sexualising women, misogyny, public sphere, personal vs the professional

Question 6

‘she has deceived her father, and may thee’
page 233

Answer 6

Brabantio says
Foreshadowing
Link to ominous tone, the decline of the relationship, the promiscuity of Venetian women

Question 7

‘We must obey the time’
page 234

Answer 7

Othello says
Motif of time
Link to tragedy, limited time

Question 8

‘twixt my sheets’
‘I hate the Moor’
page 239

Answer 8

Iago says
Euphemism
Link to motivation

Question 9

‘her father loved me, oft invited me’
223

Answer 9

Othello
Did have some form of a relationship

Question 10

‘she loved me for the dangers I had passed and I loved her that she did pity them’
225

Answer 10

Othello
225