Marriage

Question 1

Emilia lives to serve iago

Answer 1

I nothing but to please his fantasy

Question 2

Women’s crimes are only them mimicking what men do to them

Answer 2

Else let them know, the ills we do, their ills instruct us so

Question 3

Woman are just as entitled to vice as men

Answer 3

Have we not affections? Desires for sport? And frailty, as men have

Question 4

Metaphor of consumption for marriage (Emilia)

Answer 4

They are all but stomachs, and we are all but food…when they are full, they belch us

Question 5

Emilia connects Othello’s jealousy with Iago’s

Answer 5

Some such squire he was, that turned your wit the seamy side without and made you suspect me with the moor

Question 6

Husbands responsible for the wives crimes

Answer 6

It is there husbands fault if wives do fall

Question 7

Desdemona affirms her innocence

Answer 7

Beshrew me if I would do such a wrong, for the whole world

Question 8

Desdemona chooses between her father and Othello

Answer 8

I do perceive here a divided duty

Question 9

Desdemona refuses to denounce Othello

Answer 9

His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love

Question 10

Desdemona is made worse by her marriage to Othello

Answer 10

As fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face

Question 11

The importance of the handkerchief to Desdemona

Answer 11

She reserves it evermore about her, to kiss and talk too

Question 12

Foreboding devotion of Othello to Desdemona

Answer 12

When I love thee not, chaos is come again

Question 13

Metaphor of transaction with regards to Othello’s marriage

Answer 13

The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue

Question 14

Othello’s faith is Desdemona

Answer 14

For she had eyes and chose me

Question 15

Desdemona has power over Othello

Answer 15

Her jesses were my dear heartstrings, I’d whistle her off and let her down the wind

Question 16

Othello curses his marriage

Answer 16

Curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours not their appetites

Question 17

Othello struggling to balance marriage and duty

Answer 17

I prattle out of fashion, and I dote in mine own comforts

Question 18

Othello’s poetic praise of Desdemona

Answer 18

May winds blow till the have wakened death

Question 19

Inevitable clash between Othello’s identity as a husband and a soldier

Answer 19

‘It’s the soldiers life, to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife

Question 20

Stichomythia example got hello and Desdemona

Answer 20

Succeed in unknown fate. The heavens forbid

Question 21

Iago’s metaphor of Othello as a theif

Answer 21

Thieves, thieves, thieves! Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!

Question 22

Metaphors for Desdemona’s control over Othello

Answer 22

Our captain’s captain

Our general wife is now the general

Question 23

Iago revealing the illusion of his plan to destroy Desdemona

Answer 23

Her honour is an essence that is not seen

Question 24

Animalistic imagery for Othello and Desdemona’s desire

Answer 24

An old black ram is tipping your white ewe

Question 25

Symbolism of Desdemona’s murder

Answer 25

Strangle her in bed, even the bed she hath contaminated

Question 26

Othello’s symbolic marriage to Iago

Answer 26

In the due reverence of a sacred vow, I here engage my words

Iago Kneels

Iago doth give you the execution of his wit, hands, heart

Question 27

Othello compares Desdemona to a prostitute

Answer 27

We have done our course, there’s money for your pains

Question 28

Iago equated his marriage to business

Answer 28

It is thought abroad that ‘Twixt my sheets, he’s done my office

Question 29

Iago’s suspicion of Cassio

Answer 29

For I fear Cassio with my night cap too

Question 30

Iago suggests Desdemona is unnatural because she chose Othello

Answer 30

It is such a will most rank, foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural

Question 31

Iago degrades Emilia

Answer 31

You have a thing for me? It is a common thing

Good wench, give it me