Othello 3.4

Question 1

“I had

Answer 1

rather lose my purse / Full of crusadoes” -Desdemona

• showing the distress Desdemona feels at losing the handkerchief
• shows how unjust Othello is for assuming she had given it away as he is doubting Desdemona’s love

Question 2

“and but my

Answer 2

noble Moor / Is true of mind and made of no such baseness / As jealous creatures are” -Desdemona

• dramatic irony
• we know that Othello is a jealous person but Desdemona does not
• shows Desdemona’s naivety and believing that Othello is incapable of feeling jealousy

Question 3

“The

Answer 3

handkerchief!” -Othello

-disrespectful towards his wife who has never done anything wrong

Question 4

“Alas

Answer 4

the day, I never gave him cause.” -Desdemona

-Desdemona’s innocence showing as she doesn’t see there is an external force

Question 5

“But jealous souls

Answer 5

will not be answer’d so. / They are not ever jealous for the cause, / But jealous for they’re jealous.” -Emilia
-links to Iago saying that jealousy is his “natures plague” and that Othello is jealous even though he claims not to be as he says “when I doubt, prove”