Connects AO4

Question 1

Macbeth

Answer 1

• Lady Macbeth + Iago = both drive the main character to kill
• Desdemona + Lady Macbeth = drive their husbands to madness because they’re too independent
• Othello + Macbeth = both military men who value their reputation
• Iago + Macbeth = driven to kill by a desire to climb the social ladder
• Jealousy as a destructive force/something that drives characters to madness

Question 2

Hamlet

Answer 2

• Hamartia = Othello’s insecurity and Hamlet’s need to revenge
• Language used to manipulate people in monologues or soliloquies

Question 3

King Lear

Answer 3

• Hamartia = Othello’s insecurity, Lear’s pride

- Othello + Lear = men who’s reputation is larger than life

Question 4

Coriolanus

Answer 4

• Hamartia = Othello’s insecurity, Coriolanus’s pride and arrogance
• Othello + Coriolanus = men larger than life who can’t survive in the ‘real’ world

Question 5

Romeo and Juliet

Answer 5

• Both plays are arguably domestic tragedies, not political or wartime tragedies
• Circumstances are to blame for deaths in the play, not individual people
• The morality of murder and suicide

Question 6

The Merchant of Venice

Answer 6

• Othello + Shylock = racism, the presentation is ethnic minorities as evil or in positions of power they shouldn’t have

Question 7

The Taming Of The Shrew

Answer 7

• Bianca + Desdemona + Emilia = women who are so independent that they are die for it
• Gender stereotypes