Othello - Marriage

Question 1

Mutualistic partnership

Answer 1

• “I love the gentle Desdemona”
• “let her speak of me before her father”
• “Let her have her voice”
• “O, my fair warrior!” / “My dear Othello!”
• “If it were now to die, ‘Twere now to be most happy”/ “our loves and comforts should increase even as our days do grow”
• “my noble Moor is true of mind, and made of no such baseless as jealous creatures are”
• “Have you prayed tonight Desdemon?”

Question 2

Method of control over women

Answer 2

• “My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty”
• “My Desdemona” / “Come Desdemona”
• “Would she give you so much of her lips as of her tongue she oft bestowed me, you’d have enough”
• “That handkerchief did an Egyptian to my mother give”
• “He smothers her”