Quotations: Act 1 Scene 2

Question 1

Quotation: ‘My parts, my title and…’

Answer 1

‘my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly’ - Othello

Question 2

Explanation: ‘My parts, my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly’ - Othello

Answer 2

Confidence or arrogance?

Question 3

Quotation: ‘By…’

Answer 3

‘Janus’ - Iago

Question 4

Explanation: ‘By Janus’ - Iago

Answer 4

Two-faced God - ironic

Question 5

Quotation: ‘I lack…’

Answer 5

‘Iniquity sometimes to do me service’ - Iago

Question 6

Explanation: ‘I lack iniquity sometimes to do me service’ - Iago

Answer 6

Ironically humbling himself, amusing for audience to hear his plans

Question 7

Quotation: ‘But that I love…’

Answer 7

‘The gentle Desdemona’ - Othello

Question 8

Explanation: ‘But that I love the gentle Desdemona’ - Othello

Answer 8

Meek and mild makes her death all the worse because of her good nature

Question 9

Quotation: ‘Were it my cue to fight…’

Answer 9

‘I should have known it without a prompter’ - Othello

Question 10

Explanation: ‘Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it without a prompter’ - Othello

Answer 10

Doesn’t want to fight but will if necessary - if anything, this shows how everyone else is rules by instinct, not him

Question 11

Quotation: ‘Shall out-tongue…’

Answer 11

‘His complaints’ - Othello

Question 12

Explanation: ‘Shall out-tongue his complaints’ - Othello

Answer 12

Eloquent language contrasts animal comparisons that would suggest savagery

Question 13

Quotation: ‘Abused her…’

Answer 13

‘Delicate youth’ - Brabantio

Question 14

Explanation: ‘Abused her delicate youth’ - Brabantio

Answer 14

Contrasts him as an ‘old’ ram - foreshadows further differences

Question 15

Quotation: ‘Down with him…’

Answer 15

‘Thief!’ - Brabantio

Question 16

Explanation: ‘Down with him thief!’ - Brabantio

Answer 16

Presents Desdemona as an object and Othello as a criminal