quotes for each critical essay

Question 1

choose a play with a scene that influences the course of future events

Answer 1

• act 3 scene 3
• “Ha! I like not that”
• “I prithee speak to me as to thy thinkings”
• “Beware of jealousy, my lord, it is the green-eyed monster”
• “Think’st thou I’d make life of jealousy”
• “trifles light as air / are to the jealous confirmations strong”
• “why did I marry?” “I’ll tear her all to pieces!”

Question 2

choose a play that involves a relationship which is in crisis

Answer 2

• “she loved me for the dangers i had passed, / and i loved her that she did pity them”
• “excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul but i do love thee”
• “i think my wife be honest and think she is not”
• “let her rot and perish and be damned tonight, for she shall not live”
• “my wife! what wife? i have no wife.”

Question 3

choose a play with a major character who experiences different emotions throughout the play

Answer 3

“excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul but i do love thee”
“she loved me for the dangers i had passed, / and i loved her that she did pity them”
“i think my wife be honest and think she is not”
“let her rot and perish and be damned tonight, for she shall not live”
“my wife! what wife? i have no wife.”
“she must die”

Question 4

choose a play with a scene with a signficiant discovery

Answer 4

• act 5 scene 2
• she must die, else she’ll betray more men
• that handkerchief which i so lov’d and gave thee, thou gav’st to cassio
• honest, honest iago
• he lie to th’heart
• o fool fool fool

Question 5

conflict within an individual

Answer 5

• my wife
• excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul but i do love thee
• i think my wife be honest and think she is not
• my wife! what wife? i have no wife
• let her rot and perish and be damned tonight, for she shall not live

Question 6

character with a weakness

Answer 6

• othello is too trusting in iago
• “iago is most honest”
• “the moor is of a free and open nature… and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are”
• “if thou dost slander her and torture me, never pray more”
• “for here’s a young a sweating devil here”
• “she must die, else she’ll betray more men”
• “o fool fool fool”

Question 7

choose a play which deals with the theme of appearance and reality

Answer 7

• iago is most honest
• honest, honest iago
• i am not what i am
• i follow him to serve my turn upon him
• the moor is of a free and open nature… and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are
• he lies to th-heart

Question 8

choose a play where a major character behaves in an emotional manner

Answer 8

• strangle her in bed, even the bed she hath contaminated
• she must die, else she’ll betray more men
• let her rot and perish and be damned tonight, for she shall not live
• o fool fool fool

Question 9

choose a play which deals with the theme of betrayal

Answer 9

• iago is most honest
• my friend, thy husband, honest, honest, Iago
• twas he that told me on her first
• i am not what i am
• i follow him to serve my turn upon him
• the moor is of a free and open nature, … and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are
• o fool fool fool

Question 10

choose a play with a central character in conflict with another character

Answer 10

• i think my wife be honest and think she is not
• my lord is not my lord
• excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul but i do love thee
• let her rot and perish and be damned tonight for she shall not lice
• she must die

Question 11

choose a play that has a difficult relationship between two characters

Answer 11

• the relationship between othello and iago is difficult. the relationship is difficult because there is prevelent deception within it.
• gullibility meets treachery.
• “i follow him to serve my turn upon him”
• “i am not what i am”
• “iago is most honest” - “the moor is of a free and open nature, and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are”
• “if thou dost slander her and torture me, never pray more”
• “he lies to th’eart”