Iago - Quotes

Question 1

Act 1 Scene 1
- refers to Cassio’s status

Answer 1

‘a Florentine’

Question 2

Act 1 Scene 1
- makes fun of Cassio - believes he isn’t fit for the job

Answer 2

‘mere prattle without practice’
‘never set a squadron in the field’

Question 3

Act 1 Scene 1
- hyperbole - feigns honesty and truthfulness

Answer 3

‘I wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at’

Question 4

Act 1 Scene 1
- calls out to Brabantio - lies - claims Othello stole away Desdemona

Answer 4

‘your daughter and your bags’

Question 5

Act 1 Scene 1
- soul imagery - women - daughters rep of fathers enforced

Answer 5

‘lost half your sole’

Question 6

Act 1 Scene 1
- carnal vulgar image - lewd racial comment

Answer 6

‘old black ram is tupping your white ewe’

Question 7

Act 1 Scene 1
- bestial imagery - refers to Othello as a beast - devilish

Answer 7

‘devil will make a grandsire of you’

Question 8

Act 1 Scene 1
- over the top mad racial horse imagery - prose

Answer 8

‘Barbary horse’

Question 9

Act 1 Scene 1
- hellish imagery of Othello and his future child

Answer 9

‘beast with two backs’

Question 10

Act 1 Scene 2
- lies to Othello - feigns loyalty
also slyly asks about Desdemona

Answer 10

‘nay but he prated’
‘are you fast married?’

Question 11

Act 1 Scene 2
- swears to the two faced Roman God

Answer 11

‘By Janus’

Question 12

Act 1 Scene 3
- talks down to the despondent Roderigo - doesn’t understand heartbreak

Answer 12

‘Virtue? A fig!’

Question 13

Act 1 Scene 3
- metaphor - man is composed of emotions he can control - free will - his mantra - he is selfish

Answer 13

‘our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners’

Question 14

Act 1 Scene 3
what does blank verse switch to

Answer 14

prose

Question 15

Act 1 Scene 3
- put money… - takes advantage of Roderigo for money - repetition

Answer 15

‘put money in thy purse’

Question 16

Act 1 Scene 3
- blank verse - iambic pentameter
- hypocritical - contradictory - two faced towards Roderigo
- soliloquy

Answer 16

‘make my fool my purse’

Question 17

Act 1 Scene 3
- word for Iago’s character
- pure malicious spite and evil intent

Answer 17

Machiavellian

Question 18

Act 1 Scene 3
- pure intentions shown to audience willingly
- sociopathic

Answer 18

‘abuse Othello’s ear’

Question 19

Act 2 Scene 1
- misogyny towards Emilia

Answer 19

‘you would have enough’

Question 20

Act 2 Scene 1
- playfully jabs at women
- awkward hyperbolic understanding of women - sees them as duplicitous and untrustworthy

Answer 20

'’housewives in your beds’

Question 21

Act 2 Scene 1
- contrasts Cassio - honest truth - unlike other complimentary men - endemic attitudes spread to Othello

Answer 21

‘I am nothing if not critical’

Question 22

Act 2 Scene 2
- dramatic device used by Shakespeare when talking about women

Answer 22

rapid successive rhyming couplets
entertaining
ranting

Question 23

Act 2 Scene 1
- web imagery - captures Cassio

Answer 23

‘ensnare as great a fly’

Question 24

Act 2 Scene 1
- thinks all women are the same - infidelity is their nature

Answer 24

‘the wine she drinks is made of grapes’

Question 25

Act 2 Scene 3
- language - goads Cassio
- sexual desire and misogyny

Answer 25

‘wanton’
‘she is sport for Jove’
‘warrant her full of game’

Question 26

Act 2 Scene 3
- Shakespeare’s narrative device

Answer 26

follows Iago’s linear narrative
- polarising views expressed through his own perspective these attitudes them impress themselves upon Othello

Question 27

Act 2 Scene 3
- plants the seed of doubt into everyone’s mind that Cassio is disloyal

Answer 27

‘soldier fit to stand by Caesar’

Question 28

Act 2 Scene 3
- claims Desdemona has influence over Othello

Answer 28

‘our generals wife is now the general’