othello prompts & quotes

Question 1

initial presentation (4)

Answer 1

• “valiant, brave and wise”
• “keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them”
• “rude I am in my speech, and little bless in the set phrase of peace”
• “my parts, my title and my perfect soul”

Question 2

hamartia (8)

Answer 2

• “I am yours forever”
• “beware my lord of jealousy, it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on”
• “look to your wife, observe her well with Cassio”
• “I will chop her into messes, cuckold me!”
• “but let her live”
• “I here engage my words”
• “that he should steal away so guilty-like, seeing you coming”
• “I will be the most cunning… most bloody”

Question 3

evil - origins (6)

Answer 3

• “I’ll pour pestilence in his ear”
• “behold her topped”
• “that he should steal away so guilty-like, seeing you coming”
• “Is he not honest? ‘Honest’ my lord? Honest? Ay, honest”
• “beware my lord of jealousy, it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on”
• “I in Cassio’s lodging will lose this napkin and leave it for him to find”

Question 4

evil - escalating/effects (5)

Answer 4

• “O monstrous, monstrous! I will tear her all to pieces!”
• “In the due reverence of a sacred vow, I here engage my words”
• “Zounds! Fire and brimstone!”
• “thou art my lieutenant/I am yours forever”
• “I shall be the most cunning… most bloody”

Question 5

ending (2)

Answer 5

• “I kissed thee, ere I killed thee: no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss”
• “I have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial”

Question 6

women (5)

Answer 6

• “villainous whore”
• “but I do think that it is their husbands’ fault if wives do fall: say they slack their duties… or say they strike us”
• “I would rather have lost my purse”
• “I understand a fury in your words, but not the words”
• “what is it that they do when they change us for others? Is it sport? I think it is”

Question 7

violence (4)

Answer 7

• “O monstrous, monstrous! I will tear her all to pieces!”
• “Zounds! Fire and brimstone!”
• “I shall be the most cunning… most bloody”
• “I will chop her into messes, cuckold me!”