A2S3 Key quotes

Question 1

How does Iago attempt to manipulate Cassio’s views of Desdemona (2)

Answer 1

• ‘I’ll warrant her full of game’
• ‘what an eye she has’

Question 2

How does Cassio acknowledge his status as a lightweight

Answer 2

‘I have poor and unhappy brains for drinking’

Question 3

How is this scene set out as a comedy (3)

Answer 3

• ‘this is my right hand and this is my left’
• the reaction of all the soldiers as naughty schoolboys when Othello enters
• the slapstick fighting

Question 4

How does Iago undermine both Cassio and Othello to Montano (3)

Answer 4

• ‘he is a soldier fit to stand beside Caesar’
• ‘do but see his vice’
• ‘I fear the trust Othello puts him in’

Question 5

What is the significance of Iago’s interaction with Roderigo

Answer 5

It comes in between speaking to Montano about how he loves Cassio

Question 6

How does Othello regain control

Answer 6

‘are we turned Turks’

Question 7

How does Iago feign reluctance when retelling the events to Othello

Answer 7

‘I had rather cut this tongue from my mouth than it should do offence to Michael Cassio’

Question 8

How does Iago dismiss Cassio’s lamenting of his loss of reputation

Answer 8

‘reputation is an idle, and most false imposition’

Question 9

How does Iago demonstrate his quick scheming

Answer 9

‘confess yourself freely to her’

Question 10

How does Iago acknowledge the goodness in others to use it to his advantage (3)

Answer 10

• ‘tis most easy th’inliclining Desdemona to subdue’
• ‘his soul is enfettered to her love’
• ‘turn her virtue into pitch’