Venice/cyprus + Egypt/rome

Question 1

If it had…

Answer 1

Ruffian’d so upon the sea.”

Pathetic fallacy in Cyprus- Cyprus is wild and liberal, a polar opposite of Venice. A storm follows othello and his men across the sea, metaphorically and literally, as it was the storm which killed the Turks.

Question 2

Venice and Cyprus summery

Answer 2

In general, both settings create a sense of impending doom (tragedy) because war was looming for both areas. Venice is a city that thinks little of the Moor (or any foreigner) aside from his military usefulness, and even the couple’s move to Cyprus, an island of love, is not enough to outweigh the natural distrust of Othello’s non-military life.

Question 3

“This is Venice,

Answer 3

My house is not a grange!”
-barbantio
Venice is a place of civility and the Christian faith, and is highly respectable,

Question 4

How does othello ideologically end in Venice?

Answer 4

In the play’s final scene, the only ones to restore calm and civility are lodovico and Gratiano, the two friends just arrived from Venice.

Question 5

🔴he was disposed…

Answer 5

To mirth, but on the sudden a Roman thought hath struck him.” -cleopatra

-Even cleopatra can see the distinct differences in the way her foreign lover a tad and thinks to her and her own people. Antony’s logical and emotionally detached way of thinking if foreign to her.

Question 6

🔴”Let Rome…

Answer 6

In tiber melt, and the wide arch of the raged empire fall.” -Ant

-Antony abandoned his Roman duties in favour of following cleopatra’ passion and heated ways.u

Question 7

🔴 “Her gentlewomen, …

Answer 7

Like the nereides, so many mermaids…had gone to gaze on cleopatra, too, and made a gap in nature.” Enobarbus, A2 S2

• mermaid imagery suggest Egypt as a haze of fantasy over cleopatra and Egypt.
• the rich description of the boat’s decadence and treasures give the setting a luxurious feel to the exotic land.
• cleopatra is set in the centre of the description, as its queen, only heightens her goddess appeal. This goddess image is one cleopatra clearly set up to create the most memorable of first impressions, and one she dies to preserve.

Question 8

🔴 Agrippa says?

Answer 8

“Rare Egyptian!”

-further casts the idea of cleopatra and her decadent lifestyle being one that in rare and famous.