Act 1 Scene 3 - quotes

Question 1

Senators = brave Othello - outsider

Answer 1

'’valiant Moor’’

Question 2

Duke = brave Othello - inclusive -respect

Answer 2

'’valiant Othello’’

Question 3

Duke = flattery towards Othello - respect and likening towards Othello who is an established figure in Venetian society

Answer 3

'’I think this tale would win my daughter too’’

Question 4

Brabantio = incredibly hurt and superlative - hyperbolically pained

Answer 4

'’my particular grief is of so floodgate and o’bearing nature’’

Question 5

Brabantio = accuses Othello of a grievous act

Answer 5

'’she is abus’d, stol’n from me and corrupted.

Question 6

Brabantio = accuses all of Venice and his daughter to have predisposed racial prejudice

Answer 6

'’to fall in love with what she feared to look on’’

Question 7

Brabantio = not approving of interracial marriage - goes against the natural order.

Answer 7

'’against all rules of nature’’

Question 8

Brabantio = questions Desdemona’s loyalty, with her husband or father

Answer 8

'’where most you owe obedience?’’

Question 9

What does Brabantio do to Desdemona in this scene

Answer 9

disown her

Question 10

Othello = respectful address towards Duke and senators

Answer 10

'’most potent, grave and reverend Signor’s’’

Question 11

Othello = possession of Desdemona

Answer 11

'’I won his daughter’’

Question 12

Othello = honourable, absolute truth - doesn’t lose composure or sense of entitlement - contrast Iago

Answer 12

'’It is most true’’

Question 13

Othello = sprezzatura - evokes honesty and truth - respectful - hubris hidden underneath this - conscious effort made to mask????

Answer 13

'’Rude am I in my speech’’

Question 14

Othello = accustomed to battle and fighting - not the emotional plain

Answer 14

'’and little blessed with the soft phrase of peace’’

Question 15

Othello = true organic love between him and Desdemona

Answer 15

'’how I did thrive in this fair lady’s love and she in mine’’

Question 16

Othello = Desdemona listening to Othello’s tales

Answer 16

'’greedy ear Devour my discourse’’

Question 17

Othello = Desdemona - aids him with empathy

Answer 17

'’she gave me for my pains a world of sighs’’

Question 18

Othello = enamoured by falling in love

Answer 18

'’twas wondrous pitiful’’

Question 19

Othello = resolute in his love - denies claims of witchcraft

Answer 19

'’this is the only witchcraft I have us’d’’

Question 20

Desdemona = respect for Brabantio + split obedience to Othello

Answer 20

'’my noble father, I do percieve here a divided duty’’

Question 21

Desdemona = cyclical nature of women and fathers etc.

Answer 21

'’so much duty as my mother show’d to you’’

Question 22

Othello + Desdemona - lacking in speech yet why is Othello’s reference to Des significance

Answer 22

• he allows for Desdemona to speak for herself - she advocates for him as he did for her. First female voice in the play.

Question 23

Roderigo = despondent and sad

Answer 23

'’I will incontinently drown myself’’

Question 24

Roderigo = subservience (financial) to Iago

Answer 24

'’I’ll sell all my land’’

Question 25

Iago = demands - but slyly - coerces Roderigo for money

Answer 25

'’put money in thy purse’’

Question 26

Iago = prejudice against Othello - stereotypical view

Answer 26

'’erring Barbarian’’

Question 27

Iago = admits feelings towards Othello

Answer 27

'’I hate the Moor’’

Question 28

Iago = reveals initial aspects of his overall plot to the audience

Answer 28

'’abuse Othello’s ear’’

Question 29

Iago = aims to take advantage of Othello’s nature

Answer 29

'’The Moor is of a free and open nature. That thinks men honest.’’

Question 30

Othello = religious imagery related to Othello’s (doomed?) relationship

Answer 30

'’Hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the worlds light’’