Othello

Question 1

Othello lovingly talks about Desdemona in Act 1

Answer 1

‘I love the gentle Desdemona’
1.2

Question 2

Othello expresses insecurity of his origins

Answer 2

‘I do confess the vices of my blood’
1.3

Question 3

How Othello explains his and Desdemona’s relationship

Answer 3

‘she gave me for my pains a world of sighs’
1.3

Question 4

Desdemona’s pity for Othello’s bravery

Answer 4

‘she lov’d me for the dangers I had passed and I lov’d her that she did pity them’
1.3

Question 5

Othello subverts norms by labelling Desdemona with battle imagery

Answer 5

‘O, my fair warrior!’
2.1

Question 6

storm imagery relating to how Desdemona comforts Othello

Answer 6

‘If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken’d death, and let the labouring bark climb hills of seas’
2.1

Question 7

quote about Iago’s honesty and how his events of Cassio’s fight are toned down

Answer 7

‘Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter’
2.3

Question 8

Othello’s insecurity of being chosen by Desdemona

Answer 8

‘For she had eyes, and chose me’
3.3

Question 9

Othello expresses anger towards Iago for causing him such distress

Answer 9

‘be gone! thou hast set me on the rack’
3.3

Question 10

goodbye language from Othello- everything good has gone

Answer 10

‘Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop’
3.3

Question 11

Quote to describe Desdemona’s fall from grace (Dian)

Answer 11

‘Her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face’
3.3

Question 12

violent details

Answer 12

‘I’ll tear her all to pieces.’
3.3

Question 13

Arise…

Answer 13

‘Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!’
3.3

Question 14

violent towards Desdemona- ego is hurt

Answer 14

‘I will chop her into messes: cuckold me!’
4.1

Question 15

he physically attacks Desdemona

Answer 15

‘[Striking her] Devil!’
4.1

Question 16

abusive term to Desdemona

Answer 16

‘cunning wh*re of Venice’
4.2

Question 17

Othello repeats a word beginning with W after killing Desdemona

Answer 17

‘My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.’
5.2

Question 18

Othello wants to be punished for killing Desdemona

Answer 18

‘roast me in sulphur! Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!’
5.2

Question 19

Othello feels relief at the thought of death

Answer 19

‘For, in my sense, ‘tis happiness to die.’
5.2

Question 20

Othello’s final stage direction

Answer 20

[Stabs himself]
5.2