Structure

Question 1

What’s significant about Iago opening the play?

Answer 1

Creates dramatic tension as he’s the villain

Question 2

How is Othello’s language in A1, S2?

Answer 2

Calm, measures tone
Blank verse
Contrasts to Iago / Roderigo

Question 3

A1, S3 and it’s relevance to Othello’s life

Answer 3

Structured to pull Othello between love and war

Question 4

Iago’s speech pattern in A1, S3

Answer 4

Speaks quickly in fast moving prose to outwit Roderigo

Question 5

How are soliloquies used?

Answer 5

At the beginning and the end of the play to alert the audience of a plan

Question 6

How are the audience left at the end of Act 1?

Answer 6

Aware of Iago’s dark nature, when his soliloquy ends on an image of “hell and night” which associates him to dark forces

Question 7

What does the very short scene of A2, S2 do?

Answer 7

Links love to war

The audience can infer / foreshadow Othello’s marriage may become under threat

Question 8

What’s significant about A3, S2?

Answer 8

Builds up to the pivotal scene

Question 9

Significance of A3, S3?

Answer 9

It is a very long, yet fast moving scene- this allows Iago’s poison to work quickly

It is an intense and claustrophobic scene

Question 10

What’s significant about A4, S1?

Answer 10

Foreshadows the end of the play