Act 5

Question 1

(Roderigo causal immortality)

Answer 1

I have no great devotion to the deed

Question 2

(Roderigo causal immortality). And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons

Answer 2

Tis but a man gone. Forth, my sword: he dies

Question 3

(Iago purloining)

Answer 3

Gold and jewels that I bobb’d from him, as gifts to Desdemona

Question 4

(Iago’s scheming) And he grows angry.

Answer 4

Now whether he kill Cassio, or Cassio him, or each do kill the other, every way makes my gain

Question 5

(Iago’s duplicity) “the same indeed,

Answer 5

a very valiant fellow

Question 6

(Dramatic irony) ……and cannot make away

Answer 6

I think one of them is hereabout

Question 7

(Roderigo last words)

Answer 7

O damn’d Iago, O inhuman dog

Question 8

“Gentlemen all,

Answer 8

I do suspect this trash To be a party in this injury.”

Question 9

“Look you pale, mistress?

Answer 9

Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?

Question 10

Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon.

Answer 10

Behold her well; I pray you, look upon her: Do you see, gentlemen? nay guiltiness will speak, through tongues were out of use

Question 11

(Narrative climax)

Answer 11

This is the night that either makes me or fordoes me quite

Question 12

(Narrative climax)

Answer 12

This is the night that either makes me or fordoes me quite

Question 13

(Othello rationalising murder)

Answer 13

Yet, I’ll not shed her blood; nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow

Question 13

(Othello rationalising murder)

Answer 13

Yet, I’ll not shed her blood; nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow

I would not kill thy unprepared spirit; no; heaven forfend! I would not kill thy soul

Question 14

And smooth as monumental alabaster.

Answer 14

Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men

Question 15

If you say

Answer 15

so I hope you will not kill me

Question 16

(Othello split between love & fury) Sweet soul

Answer 16

Take heed, take heed of perjury; thou art on thy deathbed

Question 17

(Othello ruthlessness)

Answer 17

Down, strumpet

Question 18

Kill me to-morrow

Answer 18

let me live to-night….but half an hour, but while I say one prayer

Question 19

(Othello aware of consequences)

Answer 19

My wife! My wife! what wife? I have no wife. O insupportable! O heavy hour

Question 20

(Desdemona loyalty)

Answer 20

Nobody; I myself. Farewell Commend me to my kind lord. O farewell

Question 21

(Othello confusion)

Answer 21

You heard her say herself, it was not I…She’s, like a liar, gone to burning hell: Twas I was that kill’d her

Question 22

(Desdemona virtue)

Answer 22

O, the more angel she, And you the blacker devil

Question 23

(Othello impetuous)

Answer 23

Thou art rash as fire, to say that she was false: O she heavenly true

Question 24

(Iago duplicity) twas he that told me first

Answer 24

An honest man he is, and hates the slime that sticks on filthy deeds

Question 25

(Emilia berates Iago)

Answer 25

“You told a lie, an odious, damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.”

Question 26

Unlike Desdemona, Emilia’s obedience to her husband is not unconditional

Answer 26

“Good gentlemen, let me have leave to speak: ‘Tis proper I obey him but not now.

Question 27

(Emilia describes Desdemona’s virtue)

Answer 27

“Nay, lay thee down and roar; For thou hast kill’d the sweetest innocent That e’er did lift up eye.”

Question 28

(Brabantio died of a broken heart) “Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father’s dead

Answer 28

Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain:”

Question 29

Unlike Desdemona, Emilia’s obedience to her husband is not unconditional

Answer 29

“Twill out, ‘twill out: I peace! No, I will speak as liberal as the north

Question 30

Iago loses the esteem of the Venetian nobles

Answer 30

Fie, your sword upon woman?

Question 31

(Emilia describes Iago as a murderous fool)……what should such a fool Do with so good a woman?”

Answer 31

“O murderous coxcomb!

Question 32

(Othello mourns the loss of his honour more than his wife and contemplates suicide)

Answer 32

“But why should honour outlive honesty? Let it go all.”

Question 33

(Othello evades personal responsibility by blaming the the stars for Desdemona’s death) “Where should Othello go? Now, how dost thou look now?

Answer 33

O ill-starr’d wench! Pale as thy smock!

Question 34

(Lodovico description of Othello)

Answer 34

Where is this rash and most unfortunate man

Question 35

(Othello concerned on reputation) “Why, any thing

Answer 35

An honourable murderer if you will; for nought I did in hate, but all in honour

Question 36

(Lodovico description of Othello)

Answer 36

“O thou Othello, thou wert once so good, Fall’n in the practise of a damned slave”

Question 37

(Iago bitter and spiteful to the end)

Answer 37

Demand me nothing, what you know: from this time forth I never will speak another word

Question 38

(Cassio appointed general )

Answer 38

you must forsake this room, and go with us: your power and your command is taken off, And Cassio rules in Cyprus

Question 39

(Iago villainy)

Answer 39

“O Spartan dog, More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea! Look on the tragic loading of this bed; This is thy work”

Question 40

(Othello last words are to Desdemona)

Answer 40

“I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee: no way but this; Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.”

Question 41

(Othello reputation)

Answer 41

“Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous”

Question 42

(justice will be done) To you lord governor

Answer 42

Remains the censure of this hellish villain; The time, the place, the torture: O, enforce it!”