Critics 41-50

Question 1

Othello is a victim of racial beliefs precisely as he becomes an agent of misogynistic ones’

Answer 1

Loomba

Question 2

Emilia dies in service of the truth

Answer 2

Simpson

Question 3

‘Evil has nowhere been portrayed with such mastery as in the character of Iago’

Answer 3

A.C Bradley

Question 4

instead of the monster they were encouraged to preconceive, Shakespeare presents an articulate and rational Christian’

Answer 4

Richard Lees

Question 5

‘Shakespeare shows how the male eye has a disconcerting tendency to see women in absolutes as either divine or hellish, angels or whores’

Answer 5

Michael Best

Question 6

‘She remains submissive till the end’

Answer 6

Marilyn French

Question 7

Othello was not jealous he was trustful’

Answer 7

Dostoevsky

Question 8

‘The skill of Iago was extraordinary, but so was his good fortune’

Answer 8

A.C Bradley

Question 9

‘Desdemona made a very specific decision to marry this man … that makes her in some ways extremely strong, an active participant in the drama, rather than an insipid feeble girl’

Answer 9

Mendes

Question 10

‘Iago and Othello are close … they start to melt into each other … Othello’s grand verse breaks down into jagged disordered prose. Iago’s prose becomes triumphant verse’

Answer 10

Fintan O’Toole

Question 11

‘issue a warning not only to disobedient daughters but also to open societies who let in outsiders’

Answer 11

Loomba

Question 12

‘Seems to represent the better man’

Answer 12

V. Walker

Question 13

Desdemona is arguably the most disregarded and underrated heroine in Shakespeare

Answer 13

Peter Hollindale