Critics 31-40

Question 1

‘Othello’s love of Desdemona is ‘the love of possession. She is a prize, a spoil of war’

Answer 1

Carol Phillips

Question 2

‘Iago’s most disturbing quality is that he is ‘THEATRICALLY IRRESISTABLE’

Answer 2

Kieran Ryan

Question 3

‘Iago’s most powerful tool is his voice’

Answer 3

Simon Bubb

Question 4

Iago makes his superiors his puppets

Answer 4

Cox

Question 5

‘it is only “Othello’s jealousy, not Iago’s hatred, that is the real tragedy’

Answer 5

Bonnie Greer

Question 6

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‘He is not the devil. He’s you or me being jealous and not being able to control our feelings’

Answer 6

Andy Serkis - played Iago in 2002

Question 7

Women and blacks exist as other

Answer 7

Loomba

Question 8

‘Othello is responsible for his own downfall’

Answer 8

T.S Elliot

Question 9

‘Iago’s machinations are effective because Othello is predisposed to believing his pronouncements about the duplicity of women’

Answer 9

Loomba

Question 10

‘Othello’s descent into murderous jealousy is not a shocking reversal, but is the inevitable return of an innately barbarous man to his ostensibly uncivilised roots’

Answer 10

Schlegel