Act 5 Flashcards
1
Q
What does Act 5 lead to?
A
the debasement of previously honourable emotions is irreversible, whilst others proceed to attempt to restore order and justice
2
Q
act 5, scene 1
A
- I and R wait where C visits B
- I positions R in a place where he will be able to ambush C
- I then leaves
- C enters, and R stabs at him but fails to pierce C’s armor
- C stabs and wounds R
- I darts out in the commotion, stabs C in the leg, and exits
- O enteres, he believes that I has killed him inspired by what he believes to be I’s vengeance
- O returns to his bedroom to kill D
- L and G enter, I enters carrying a light and stabs R without hesitation
- B enters and begins to cry out when she sees the wounded C
- I suggests that R is to blame
- I takes B under arrest, and sends E to tell O and D what has happened.
3
Q
act 5, scene 2
A
- O stands over the sleeping D and prepares to kill her
- she wakes, and he tells her to prepare to die
- D asks her husband why he means to kill her, and O responds that she has been unfaithful to him with C, O refuses to believe D’s denial
- wrestling with her as she begs to be allowed to live just a little longer
- O finally succeeds in smothering his wife
- E calls from outside the door,
- O lets E in, E informs O that C has killed R
- O asks if C has been killed as well, and E informs him that C is alive
- D cries out that she has been murdered, she was not murdered but killed herself
- O triumphantly admits to E that he killed D, O tells her that Iago opened his eyes to D’s falsehood.
- the truth of I’s villainy begins to come out through
- O falls weeping upon the bed that contains the body of his dead wife
- I is able to stab his wife, who falls
- O stabs I, wounding him, I sneers that he bleeds but is not killed
- L tells O that he must come with them back to Venice, and that he will be stripped of his power and command and put on trial
- O stabs himself
- L prepares to leave for Venice to bear the news from Cyprus to the duke and senate.
