Act 3 Scene 4

Question 1

Act 3 Scene 4 Summary

Answer 1

Desdemona is determined to advance Cassio’s suit, only to be confronted about her handkerchief.

Question 2

Monstrous imagery symbolism

Answer 2

Underscores the racial biases at work in the play, as Othello himself is perceived as beastly or monstrous because of his moorish ethnicity.

Question 3

“My noble moor…

Answer 3

Is true of mind and made of no such baseness”

Question 4

“A young and sweating…

Answer 4

devil here”

Question 5

“They are all but…

Answer 5

stomachs, and we all but food: They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.”

Question 6

“a monster

Answer 6

that grows by feeding on itself”

Question 7

Cynical

Answer 7

• believing that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere
• used to say that someone’s feelings or emotions are used to your own advantage

Question 8

Ensnared

Answer 8

catch in or as in a trap:

Question 9

Accusatory

Answer 9

indicating or suggesting that one believes a person has done something wrong:

Question 10

Accident of Birth

Answer 10

Accident Of Birth is an idiom. The meaning of this idiom is (idiomatic) A fact, situation, or personal characteristic, which may be desirable or undesirable, resulting from the circumstances into which a person was born, and which is therefore entirely beyond their control.