Act 2 Scene 3 - quotes

Question 1

Othello = Dramatic irony - Iago

Answer 1

'’Iago is most honest’’

Question 2

Othello = consummation of his marriage with Desdemona

Answer 2

'’the purchase made, the fruits are to ensue: the profits yet to come tween me and you’’

Question 3

Othello = soul - spiritual imagery

Answer 3

'’hold thy soul light’’

Question 4

Othello = bell

Answer 4

'’silence that dreadful bell: it frightens the Isle’’

Question 5

Othello = Iago - ill - feigns upset

Answer 5

'’Honest Iago that looks dead with grieving’’

Question 6

Othello =honesty and love

Answer 6

'’thy honesty and love doth mince this matter’’

Question 7

Othello = demotes Cassio

Answer 7

'’I love thee, but never more be an officer of mine’’

Question 8

Cassio = antagonised by Iago

Answer 8

'’she’s a most exquisite lady’’

Question 9

Cassio = continually commenting on Desdemona’s character - contrasts Iago’s

Answer 9

'’fresh and delicate creature’’
‘‘she is indeed perfection’’

Question 10

Cassio = warns of his misgivings with drinking, providing Iago a means in which to manipulate him

Answer 10

'’I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking’’

Question 11

Cassio = comments on his fears for life and mortality - irony for the rest of the play

Answer 11

'’there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved’’

Question 12

Cassio = wishes to live, one of the fortunate characters yet Iago plots his death irony

Answer 12

'’I hope to be saved’’

Question 13

Cassio = religious imagery - drinking / lechery

Answer 13

'’God forgive us our sins!’’

Question 14

Cassio = antagonised by Iago - spurred into fighting Roderigo / Montano

Answer 14

'’you rogue, you rascal’’

Question 15

Cassio = overwhelmed with regret, cannot speak

Answer 15

'’I pray you pardon me I cannot speak’’

Question 16

Cassio = societal reputation

Answer 16

'’reputation, reputation, reputation’’

Question 17

Cassio = aware of his loss of character when drinking

Answer 17

'’I have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial’’

Question 18

Cassio = being influenced by Iago - manages to believe that the drinking was what truly influenced him - shows real regret

Answer 18

'’men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!’’

Question 19

Iago = goads Cassio

Answer 19

'’I’ll warrant her full of game’’

Question 20

Iago = insults Othello

Answer 20

‘black Othello’’

Question 21

Iago = shows a real lack of compassion and awareness of his manipulation towards Roderigo

Answer 21

'’my sick fool Roderigo’’

Question 22

Iago = feigns cultural knowledge and worldliness to convince Cassio to drink

Answer 22

'’I learnt it in England where indeed they are most potent in potting’’

Question 23

Iago = reference to betrayal - treachery

Answer 23

'’a soldier fit to stand by Caeser’’

Question 24

Iago = begins to pit people against one another - goes behind Cassio’s back

Answer 24

'’I fear the trust Othello puts in him’’

Question 25

Iago = yet then pours into the ear of others that Cassio is suffering from alcoholism - unfit for his job, yet does it in a way that makes him sound caring

Answer 25

'’I do love Cassio well, and would do much to cure him of this evil’’

Question 26

Iago = confronts the fighting Cassio - placing a sense of doubt and regret in him about his position

Answer 26

'’Have you lost all sense of place and duty?’’

Question 27

Iago = feigns love and respect for Cassio - makes whatever he says even more grave and weighted with importance - almost like sprezzatura

Answer 27

'’I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offence to Michael Cassio’’
‘‘men are men; the best sometimes forget’’

Question 28

Iago = social commentary of hierarchy and position - insecurity or real commentary from Shakespeare

Answer 28

‘‘Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving’’

Question 29

Iago = subversive and manipulative - love - lost on Iago he doesn’t understand it and doesn’t express it

Answer 29

'’I think you think I love you’’

Question 30

Iago = suggests Desdemona has a severe influence over Othello

Answer 30

'’our General’s wife is now the General’’
‘‘she may make, unmake, do what she list’’

Question 31

Iago = metaphor for manipulation of Othello

Answer 31

'’I’ll pour pestilence into his ear’’

Question 32

Iago = using Desdemona’s own virtuous nature and goodness to trap everyone in his own web of manipulation

Answer 32

'’turn her virtue into pitch’’
‘‘out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all’’