Spring Final(13/15 Othello merchant)

Question 1

“’Twould make her amiable and subdue my father entirely to her love. But if she lost it, or made a gift of it, my father’s eye should hold her loathèd, and his spirits should hunt after new fancies. She, dying, gave it me, and bid me, when my fate would have me wived, to give it her. I did so; and take heed on ’t, Make it a darling like your precious eye. To lose ’t or give ’t away were such perdition
As nothing else could match.”

Answer 1

What’s happening?: Othello is talking about the magical silk handkerchief an Egyptian had given his mother, who now gave it to him to give to his soon-to-be wife, and what it means.
Why does it matter?: This shows how much Othello loves Desdemona- how committed he is to marry her.

Question 2

“And what’s he, then, that says I play the villain, when this advice is free I give and honest, probal to thinking, and indeed the course
To win the Moor again? For ’tis most easy Th’ inclining Desdemona to subdue in any honest suit. She’s framed as fruitful as the free elements. And then for her to win the Moor— were ’t to renounce his baptism,
All seals and symbols of redeemèd sin— His soul is so enfettered to her love that she may make, unmake, do what she list, Even as her appetite shall play the god with his weak function.”

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Question 3

“Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the Instruction.”

Answer 3

What’s happening?: Shylock is comparing and contrasting Christians & Jews?
Why does it matter?: Shows that

Question 4

“’Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown. His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptered sway. It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings; It is an attribute to God Himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God’s When mercy seasons justice.”

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Question 5

“If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums as are Expressed in the condition, let the forfeit Be nominated for an equal pound Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken In what part of your body pleaseth me.”

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Question 6

“I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable As the dog Jew did utter in the streets. ‘My daughter, O my ducats, O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats! Justice, the law, my ducats, and my daughter, A sealèd bag, two sealèd bags of ducats, Of double ducats, stol’n from me by my daughter, And jewels—two stones, two rich and precious stones— Stol’n by my daughter! Justice! Find the girl! She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.’”

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Question 7

“Do not doubt that. Before Emilia here, I give thee warrant of thy place. Assure thee, If I do vow a friendship, I’ll perform it To the last article. My lord shall never rest: I’ll watch him tame and talk him out of patience; His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift; I’ll intermingle everything he does
With Cassio’s suit.”

Answer 7

What’s happening?: Iago is telling his evil plan to the reader, how he’s gonna get everything to lead to Cassio so Othello won’t like him(which will lead him to take him out as lieutenant)
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Question 8

“Get me some poison, Iago, this night. I’ll not expostulate with her lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again. This night, Iago.”

Answer 8

What’s happening?: Othello is asking Iago to give him the poison that he intends to kill Desdemona and himself with
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Question 9

“But little. I am armed and well prepared.— Give me your hand, Bassanio. Fare you well. Grieve not that I am fall’n to this for you,
For herein Fortune shows herself more kind Than is her custom: it is still her use To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow An age of poverty, from which ling’ring penance Of such misery doth she cut me off. Commend me to your honorable wife, Tell her the process of Antonio’s end, Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death,
And when the tale is told, bid her be judge Whether Bassanio had not once a love. Repent but you that you shall lose your friend
And he repents not that he pays your debt. For if the Jew do cut but deep enough, I’ll pay it instantly with all my heart.”

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Question 10

“One of these three contains her heavenly picture. Is ’t like that lead contains her? ’Twere damnation
To think so base a thought. It were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave. Or shall I think in silver she’s immured. Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?
O, sinful thought! Never so rich a gem Was set in worse than gold.”

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Question 11

“Truth will come to light, murder cannot be hid long—a man’s son may, but in the end, truth will out.”

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Question 12

“Shall I bend low, and in a bondman’s key, With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness, Say this: “Fair sir, you spet on me on Wednesday last; You spurned me such a day; another time You called me ‘dog’; and for these courtesies I’ll lend you thus much moneys”?”

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Question 13

“She is abused, stol’n from me, and corrupted By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks; For nature so prepost’rously to err— Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense—
Sans witchcraft could not.”

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Question 14

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune,
must be in want of a wife.”

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Question 15

“Had she found Jane in any apparent danger, Mrs. Bennet would have been very miserable; but being satisfied on seeing her that her illness was not alarming, she had no wish of her recovering immediately, as her restoration to health would probably remove her from Netherfield.”

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Question 16

“Oh! certainly,” cried his faithful assistant, “no [woman] can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.”

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Question 17

“I am happy on every occasion to offer those little delicate compliments which are always
acceptable to ladies. I have more than once observed to Lady Catherine, that her
charming daughter seemed born to be a duchess, and that the most elevated rank, instead of giving her consequence, would be adorned by her. These are the kind of little things which please her ladyship, and it is a sort of attention which I conceive myself peculiarly bound to pay.”

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Question 18

“I am not romantic, you know; I never was. I ask only a comfortable home; and considering Mr. Collins’ character, connection, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is as fair as most people can boast on entering the marriage state.”

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Question 19

“And this is your opinion of me? My faults by this calculation are heavy indeed, but perhaps these offences might have been overlooked, had not your pride been hurt by the honest confession of the scruples that had long prevented my forming any serious design on you, had I concealed my struggles and flattered you. But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence. Nor am I ashamed of the feelings I related. They were natural and just could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections? To congratulate myself on the hope of relations whose condition in life is so decidedly below my own?”

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Question 20

“I will not be interrupted. Hear me in silence. My daughter and nephew are formed for each other. .. They are destined for each other by the voice of every member of their respective houses; and what is to divide them? The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune. Is this to be endured!”

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Question 21

“Her power was sinking; everything must sink under such a proof of family weakness, such an assurance of the deepest disgrace…It was…exactly calculated to make her understand her own wishes; and never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.”

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