Iago

Question 1

feels undervalued

Answer 1

“I know my price I am worth no less”

Question 2

Feels should be given Cassio’s job

Answer 2

“Never set a squadron in the field”

“mere prattle without practice”

Question 3

thinks Cassio was appointed as a result of his social connections

Answer 3

“Tis the curse of service, preferement goes by letter and affection

Question 4

insecure about his social standing

Answer 4

Unlike the “curled darlings of the nation” Iago “speaks home”

As Cassio tells us “you may relish him more in the soldier than the scholar”

Question 5

His idiolect

Answer 5

is more suited “to make fools laugh in the alehouse”

Question 6

Paranoia

Answer 6

believes both Cassio and Othello have slept with his wife
“I do suspect the moor have leaped into my seat”
“I fear Cassio with my night cap too”

Question 7

Proves he is deranged

Answer 7

he fear not one but 2 men have slept with his wife even when Othello as we know no longer has the sexual energy of a young man
“the young effects in me defunct”

Question 8

This paranoia clearly tortures him

Answer 8

“the thought whereofdouth like poisonous mineral gnaw my innards”

Question 9

Mistreatment of Brabantio

Answer 9

besmirching the senator’s daughter
“white ewe” being “tupped by an old black ram”
forces him endure lord descriptions
“making the beest with 2 backs” “covered in a Barbary horse”

Question 10

Mistreatment of Othello

Answer 10

shows a lack of empathy or conscience towards Othello
“poison his delight” “plague him with flies” “pour pestilence into his ear”
When he sees his manipulation is working “farewell content, farewell tranquil mind” and Othello is “on the rack” Iago gloats over him “work on, my medicine work”

Question 11

Roderigo

Answer 11

“thus do I make my fool my purse” exploits roderigo and refers to it as “sport”

“time expend with such a snipe but for thought and profit”

Question 12

Desdemona mistreatment

Answer 12

“do not weep, do not weep, alas the day” while having already manipulated Othello to “strangle her in her bed”

Question 13

He is amoral and malicious

Answer 13

considers virtue to be a “fig”
no value for human life, describes Cassio’s murder “knocking his brains out”

At the end of the play when caught doesn’t even give a reason for his maliciousness “From this time forth I never will speak a word”

Question 14

Opportunist and improviser

Answer 14

Does not craft a master plan , rather makes things up as he goes “knavery’s plain face is never seen, till us’d

Question 15

Handkerchief

Answer 15

Great luck in obtaining the handkerchief. Uses this to incriminate Cassio
“trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ”

Question 16

Cassio’s arrival when Othello is passed out

Answer 16

Tells Cassio to “withdraw yourself a little while” “I would on great occasion speak to you” before convincing Othello to eavesdrop on their conversation. The makes Cassio brag about his relationship with Bianca

“For I will make him tell the tale anew, where, how, how oft, how long ago and when heath , and is again to cope your wife”

Question 17

Choreographs a meeting between Cassio and Desdemona

Answer 17

advises Cassio “to confess yourself freely to” Desdemona and promises to “Draw the moor out of the way”

the does the exact opposite and brings the moor to the place and uses insinuation to manipulate Othello

Question 18

Iago as an actor

Answer 18

people continually refer to him as honest “honest Iago”
“O that’s an honest fellow”

Janus-faced “I am not what I am”
“I must show out a flag and sign of love which is indeed but sign”
“early in the play he says he was tempted “nine or ten time to have yerk’d” Brabantio “under the ribs”for defaming his general

Question 19

Manipulation of Cassio

Answer 19

Casual temptation = “but one cup” claiming that it is a “night of revels”

Feigned jocularity = Iago rouses the by a ocnvival sing-song “and let me the cannikin clink, clink

Sporting rivalry = suggest that all English men are “most potent in potting”

drags him down to his level by turning him to a “beast”

Question 20

Insinuation

Answer 20

“HA,I like not that”

stealing away “guilty-like”

Question 21

Plays on insecurities

Answer 21

“she did deceive her father marrying you”
“In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks they dare not show their husbands”
play on vulnerability as an outsider

Question 22

Bare faced lies

Answer 22

“he would gripe and wring my hand”
“then laid his leg over my thigh”
lurid fiction that Cassio had groped him in his sleep thinking of Desdemona

Question 23

Paralipsis

Answer 23

“I had rather this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offence to Michael Cassio