act 5 scene 2

Question 1

Othello blindness

Answer 1

‘it is the cause’
‘she must die, else shell betray more men’
‘like a liar gone to burning hell’ (Desdemona)
‘My friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago’

Question 2

Desdemona- tragic victim

Answer 2

‘whiter skin of hers than snow’
‘so sweet was ne’er so fatal’
While dying ‘Nobody. I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord’
‘O the more angel’ - Emilia

Question 3

Othello- tragic villain

Answer 3

He enters the scene with a light mirroring Iago in Act 1 scene 1.
( he smother her)
‘thou art a devil’
Emilia calls him a ‘filthy bargain’

Question 4

Othello’s suffering

Answer 4

’ O insupportable! O heavy hour!’
‘it should now be a huge eclipse’
‘O Desdemona! Desdemona! Dead!’
‘One that loved not wisely, but too well’

Question 5

Emilia- tragic victim

Answer 5

‘I am bound to speak’
‘He begged me to steal it’
‘O lay me by my mistress’ side’
‘so come my soul to bliss, as I speak true’

Question 6

Iago- tragic villain

Answer 6

(from behind stabs Emilia)

‘From this time forth I never will speak word’

Question 7

Othello’s anagnorisis

Answer 7

‘Whip me, ye devils’
‘Roast me in sulphur’
‘demand that demi- devil why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?’

Question 8

Resolution

Answer 8

’ hellish villain; the time, the place, the torture, o enforce it’