act 2

Question 1

Tragic setting

Answer 1

‘Turkish fleet… they are drowned’

The storm is a device used by Shakespeare to remove the external threat and replace them with Iago.

Question 2

Tragic victim- Othello

Answer 2

‘ warlike Moor Othello’
‘Great Jove’ - Cassio 
‘Lusty moor’
‘To the health of our general’ -Cassio
‘ his soul is so enfettered to her love’
'If after every tempest come such calms/May the winds blow until they have waked death'.

Question 3

Treatment of women- Desdemona

Answer 3

‘ ‘divine Desdemona’ - Cassio
‘Our great captains captain’ - C
‘ O behold the riches of the ship’ C
‘Hail to thee lady’ C
‘ o my fair warrior!’  O
‘ my souls joy!’ O
‘ sport for Jove’- Iago 
‘Exquisite lady’- Cassio 
‘Our generals wife is now the general’ 
‘She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition’ C
‘ she is indeed perfection’ C

Question 4

Blindness

Answer 4

‘Good Iago’
‘ I do love Cassio well and would do much to cure him of this evil’ I
‘ I persuade myself, to speak the truth’ I
‘Cassio did some little wrong to him’ I

Question 5

Treatment of women- by Iago

Answer 5

‘ housewives in your bed’ to Emilia

Question 6

Tragic victim - Desdemona

Answer 6

‘The heaven forbid but that our lives and comforts should increase, even as our days do grow’ - Desdemona
‘ framed as fruitful as the free elements’

Question 7

Tragic villain

Answer 7

‘Little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio’
‘ O you are well tuned now! But I’ll set down the pegs. As honest as I am’
‘ her eye must be fed; and what delight shall she have to look on the devil’
‘Wife for wife’
‘Men are men’

Question 8

Arousal of fear and pity

Answer 8

‘ I have very poor and unhappy Brains for drinking’

Question 9

Loss

Answer 9

‘Reputation, reputation, reputation!’
‘O I have lost my reputation’
‘ I have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial’