key quotes act 3

Question 1

“Dost thou ____, my honest friend?” - Cassio, Act 3 Scene 1

Answer 1

“Dost thou hear, my honest friend?”

Question 2

“No, I hear not your honest ______; I hear you.” - Clown, Act 3 Scene 1

Answer 2

“No, I hear not your honest friend; I hear you.”

Question 3

“I never knew a __________ more ____ and honest.” - Cassio, Act 3 Scene 1

Answer 3

“I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest.”

Question 4

“tell him I have moved my lord on his ______, and hope all will be well” - Desdemona, Act 3 Scene 1

Answer 4

“tell him I have moved my lord on his behalf, and hope all will be well”
- imperative sentence

Question 5

“Not now, _____ Desdemona; some other time.” “But shall’t be _______?” “The ______, sweet, for you.” “Shall’t be tonight at ______?” “No, not tonight.” “Tomorrow dinner. then?” - Othello and Desdemona, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 5

“Not now, sweet Desdemona; some other time.” “But shall’t be shortly?” “The sooner, sweet, for you.” “Shall’t be to-night at supper?” “No, not tonight.” “Tomorrow dinner, then?”
- stichomythia
- Desdemona is less powerful in the marriage, she’s asking in a childlike way
- context: links to Renaissance period where men were more powerful

Question 6

“What! Michael Cassio, that came a-wooing with you, and so many a time, when I have spoke of you _____________ hath ta’en your part” - Desdemona, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 6

“What! Michael Cassio, that came a-wooing with you, and so many a time, when I have spoke of you dispraisingly hath ta’en your part”

Question 7

“My _______ husband hath a hundres times woo’d me to ____ it”. “I’ll have the ____ ta’en out”, “I nothing but to ______ his fantasy.” - Emilia, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 7

“My wayward husband hath a hundred times woo’d me to steal it”, “I’ll have the work ta’en out.”, “I nothing but to please his fantasy.”
- symbolism of handkerchief
- Emilia is being manipulated by Iago, handkerchief was a token of love and fidelity

Question 7

“that you have been so _______ to have me filch it?” - Emilia, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 7

“that you have been so earnest to have me filch it?”

Question 8

“poor lady, she’ll run mad when she shall ____ it” - Emilia, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 8

“poor lady, she’ll run mad when she shall lack it”

Question 9

“Trifles light as ___ are to the _______ confirmations strong as proofs of holy ____” - Iago, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 9

“Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ”

Question 10

“The Moor already changes with my ______: Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.” - Iago, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 10

“The Moor already changes with my poison: Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.”

Question 11

“Give me the ______ proof, or, by the worth of mine _______ soul, thou hadst been better had been born a ___ than answer my naked wrath.” - Othello - Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 11

• suggests that Othello is suspicious of Desdemona

Question 12

“On horror’s head _______ accumulate” - Othello, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 12

“On horror’s head horrors accumulate”

Question 13

“Are you a ___?” - Iago, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 13

“Are you a man?”
- rhetorical question

Question 14

“O monstrous ____! Take note, take note, O world: To be direct and honest is not ____” - Iago, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 14

“O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world: To be direct and honest is not safe”

Question 15

“Death and _________! O!” - Othello, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 15

“Death and damnation! O!”

Question 16

“It is impossible you should see this, were they as prime as _____, as hot as monkeys, as salt as wolves in _____, and fools as gross as ignorance made drunk.” - Iago, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 16

“It is impossible you should see this, were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, as salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross as ignorance made drunk.”
- pattern of similes

Question 17

“I’ll tear her ___ to pieces” - Othello, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 17

“I’ll tear her all to pieces”
- aggressive material verb

Question 18

“Arise, black _________, from the hollow hell! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted ______ to tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, for ‘tis of aspics’ tongues!” - Othello, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 18

“Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne to tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, for ‘tis of aspics’ tongues!”

Question 19

“O, blood, _____, blood!” - Othello, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 19

“O, blood, blood, blood!”
- repetition of exclamatives

Question 20

“They r___.” - Iago, Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 20

“They rise.”

Question 21

“I am your ___ forever.” - Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 21

“I am your own forever.”