jealousy

Question 1

othello coming up with his plan (soliloquy)

“monstorous birth”

Answer 1

the end goal of iagos plan was always to take away othellos morality and humanity and replace it with rage and something inhumane

iagos danger is that he is able to do this by exploiting the purity that is love, and his ability to manipulate something that he can never understand

Question 2

humanism

Answer 2

intellectual movement focussed not on religion but what it means to be human; debating the line of human and object/animal/devil, etc.

Question 3

cuckoldry

Answer 3

when the husband of an unfaithful wife grows horns on his head that everyone but him can see; promotes distrust of women and paranoia

Question 4

iago about e.l. plan (soliloquy)

“into a jealousy so strong
that judgement cannot cure”

Answer 4

ironic from iago whose whole plan is based on his own occupational and hierarchical jealousy

even iago is blind to his own jealousy to a fault- becomes blind not to judgement as much as humanity

Question 5

iago to othello

“it is the green eyed monster”

Answer 5

ironic because othello is unaware what iago is planning and iago is unaware he is victim to the same monster

Question 6

iago to othello

“which doth mock the meat it feeds on”

Answer 6

reflects jealousys corrosive power as something alive that can grow stronger like a parasite; jealousy becoming all-consuming and self destructive

Question 7

“reflects the vitims owns beliefs”

“confirms their suspiciouns and furfills their expectations”

Answer 7

K. Ryan