Important quotes-Act 4 scene 3 talking about adultery

Question 1

Emilia’s Quotes

Answer 1

‘I might do ’t as well i’ th’ dark.’
‘Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?’
‘Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them. And have their palates both for sweet and sour’

Question 2

Desdemona’s Quotes

Answer 2

‘That there be women do abuse their husbands In such gross kind?’
‘Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend.’

Question 3

What is learnt about their friendship?

Answer 3

Shows the closeness in their friendship to discuss such a provocative topic.

Question 4

Emilia’s perception in this scene

Answer 4

proto feminist approach
moral sense to her argument which suggests her loyalties.
her wit is demonstrated but also how worldly wise she is discussing men’s ill behaviour of ‘beating and cheating’
suggests her unhappiness in her marriage

Question 5

Desdemona’s perception in this scene

Answer 5

Desdemona is naïve to the situations of the world.
her status as a venetian women has made her more oblivious to worldly issues.

Question 6

‘notion of the appetite’

Answer 6

alludes to women enjoying sex.