Act 1 Scene 1 quotes

Question 1

RODERIGO to Iago

“Tush, never tell me, I take it much unkindly

Answer 1

that thou, Iago, who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.”

Question 2

IAGO to Roderigo (first line of the play)

“‘Sblood, but you will not hear me.

Answer 2

If ever I did dream of such a matter, abhor me.”

Question 3

IAGO to Roderigo

“Three great ones of the city,

Answer 3

in personal suit to make me his lieutenant, off-capped to him and by the faith of man, I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.”

Question 4

IAGO to Roderigo

“But he, as loving his own pride and purposes,

Answer 4

Evades them, with a bombast circumstance horribly stuff’d with epithets of war;”

Question 5

IAGO to Roderigo about Othello

“For ‘Certes,’ says he, ‘I have already chose my officer.’

Answer 5

And what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician”

Question 6

IAGO to Roderigo about Cassio

“One Michael Cassio, a Florentine -

Answer 6

“A fellow almost damned in a fair wife - that never set a squadron in the field”

Question 7

IAGO to Roderigo about Cassio

“More than a spinster…

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Mere prattle, without practice is all his soldiership.”

Question 8

IAGO to Roderigo

“And I - of whom his eyes

Answer 8

had seen the proof at Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds Christian and heathen”

Question 9

IAGO to Roderigo describing Cassio

“debitor and

Answer 9

creditor.”

Question 10

IAGO to Roderigo

“And I - God bless the mark -

Answer 10

his Moorship’s ancient.”

Question 11

IAGO to Roderigo

“I follow him

Answer 11

to serve my turn upon him.”

Question 12

IAGO to Roderigo

“Others there are who, trimmed in forms and visages of duty…

Answer 12

do themselves homage. These fellows have some soul and such a one do I profess myself.”

Question 13

IAGO to Roderigo

“In following him,

Answer 13

I follow but myself.”

Question 14

IAGO to Roderigo

“not I for love and duty,

Answer 14

but seeming so for my peculiar end”

Question 15

IAGO to Roderigo

“I am not

Answer 15

what I am.”

Question 16

What racial slur does Roderigo call Othello?

Answer 16

“the thick-lips”

Question 17

IAGO to Roderigo

“Call up her father,

Answer 17

rouse him, make after him, poison his delight, proclaim him in the streets, incense her kinsmen…Plague him with flies.”

Question 18

IAGO to Roderigo about Brabantio

“Though that his joy be joy,

Answer 18

yet throw such changes of vexation on’t, as it may lost some colour.”

Question 19

IAGO to Brabantio

“you’re robbed; for shame put on your gown;

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your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul. Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.”

Question 20

IAGO to Brabantio

“Or else the devil

Answer 20

will make a grandsire of you.”

Calling Othello a devil

Question 21

BRABANTIO to Roderigo

“The worser the welcome.

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I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors in honest plainness thou hast heard me say my daughter is not for thee.”

Question 22

BRABANTIO to Rodergio and Iago hiding in the shadows, emphasising his power

“My spirit and my place have in them power

Answer 22

to make this bitter to thee.”

Question 23

BRABANTIO

“What tell’st thou me of robbing?

Answer 23

This is Venice;”

Question 24

IAGO to Brabantio

“Because we come to do you service and you think we are ruffians,

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you’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse; you’ll have your nephews neigh to you; you’ll have coursers for cousins, and jennets for germans.”

Question 25

IAGO to Brabantio

“I am one sir, that comes to tell you

Answer 25

your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”

Question 26

BRABANTIO to Iago

“Thou art a

Answer 26

villain.”

Question 27

RODERIGO to Brabantio

“your fair daughter…

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to the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor -“

Question 28

RODERIGO to Brabantio

“Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,

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I say again, hath made a gross revolt, tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes in an extravagant and wheeling stranger”

Question 29

BRABANTIO

“This accident is not unlike my dream,

Answer 29

belief of it oppresses me already. Light, I say, light!”

Question 30

IAGO to Roderigo about Othello

“Though I do hate him as I do hell pains,

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Yet for necessity of present life I must show out a flag and sign of love, which is indeed but sign.”

Question 31

BRABANTIO

“It is too true

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an evil. Gone she is, and what’s to come of my despised time is naught but bitterness.”

Question 32

BRABANTIO to Roderigo

“O, she deceives me

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past thought.”

Question 33

BRABANTIO to Roderigo

“O heaven! How got she out?

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O treason of the blood!”

Question 34

BRABANTIO

“Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds

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by what you see them act.”

Question 35

BRABANTIO to Roderigo

“Is there not charms

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by which the property of youth and maidhood may be abused?”

Question 36

BRABANTIO to Roderigo

“O would you had had

Answer 36

her!”

Shows racial prejudice against Othello

Question 37

BRABANTIO to Roderigo

“On, good Roderigo,

Answer 37

I’ll deserve your pains.”