Critics

Question 1

Marilyn French (MARRIAGE)

Answer 1

Desdemona accepts her culture’s dictum that she must be obedient to males.

Question 2

KEEFE Moran (MARRIAGE)

Answer 2

‘Othello’ is a play about control, and what happens to women who resist or subvert from that control.

Question 3

Fred West (JEALOUSY)

Answer 3

Iago has all of the psychological traits of a psychopath.

Question 4

T.S Elliot (JEALOUSY)

Answer 4

Iago exploits a weakness that already existed in Othello’s character.

Question 5

Kenneth Tyan (JEALOUSY)

Answer 5

Othello is the most easily jealous man anybody has ever written about.

Question 6

Coleridge (VIOLENCE)

Answer 6

Iago has ‘motiveless malignity’

Question 7

Greenblatt (VIOLENCE)

Answer 7

‘Othello’ is a play about Othello’s loss of his own identity and origins.

Question 8

Loomba (VIOLENCE)

Answer 8

Love and violence in the play are crucially set up.

Question 9

Loomba (IDENTITY)

Answer 9

Questions if ‘Othello’s advocates for tolerance or serves as a caution against societal openness to outsiders.

Question 10

A.C Bradley (IDENTITY)

Answer 10

Othello’s character has the traits of a great tragic hero - noble, trusting and strong.