Manipulation

Question 1

🔴I will betray…

Answer 1

Tawny-finn’d fishes. My blender hook shall pierce their slimy jams, and, as draw them up, I’ll think them every one an Antony, and say “ah,ha! You’re caught!” -cleopatra

-cleopatra is completely aware of her hold over Antony, and plans to continue manipulating her hold to benefit herself.

Question 2

🔴”If you find him…

Answer 2

sad, say I am Dancing, if in mirth,report that I am sudden sick. Quick, and return.” -cleopatra

• knows the most efficient ways of manipulating and playing his love to remain the dominant personality on the relationship.
• power struggle.

Question 3

🔴”So our…

Answer 3

Leaders led, and we are women’s men.” -canidius

-Antony has become so influenced by cleopatra that it may as well be her leading the Roman army, as she is in Command of him.

Question 4

In following…

Answer 4

Him, I follow but myself.”

-Iago explains his real reasons for following othello, he is using him for his own gain.

Question 5

1. I am…

2. We’re I the….

Answer 5

1. Not what I am” -Iago
2. Moor, I would not be Iago.”

• iago’s cryptic and elliptical manner of speaking hides as much as it reveals. This speech pattern of paradoxes and riddles is emblematic of iago’s power throughout the play. The smallest sentences (“think, my Lord?) and gestures (beckoning othello closer in act 4 scene 1) can be open to endless interpretation.

Question 6

“O beware, my Lord, …

Answer 6

Of jealousy / it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” -Iago

• Iago speaks warns othello of a monster, though is creating one himself by playing othello against himself
• by giving warning, Iago manipulates othello’s view of him, to make it appear as if he was not the totally fuelling the passionate rage, but trying to ease it.