Othello Test Review, Othello Act 3, Othello Act 2, Othello Act 1 (scenes: 1, 2, 3)

Who is the 2nd person to die and who is responsible for their death?

Roderigo is the 2nd to die, Iago wounds him for the 3rd time which causes him to die

When does the technical climax occur?

When Iago gets Desdemona's handkerchief

When does the dramatic climax occur?

When Othello swears revenge to God

Once Cassio leaves, Desdemona talks to Othello. What is she trying to set up?

dinner, she wants to invite Cassio to dinner

What request does Cassio make of Emilia?

he asks her to talk with Desdemona and to persuade her

Othello returns to speak with Iago and he is very upset with what Iago has revealed to him. Why?

he saw Cassio wiping his beard with the handkerchief. He is wiping food out of his beard with something that is really important to him

Does Desdemona think that Othello is the jealous type?

no

What literary device does the clown use?

puns

What is on the handkerchief?

strawberries

What are the 2 types of climax in act 3?

technical and dramatic

What normally happens in act 3 in a shakespeare tragedy?

technical climax

What object does Desdemona misplace while she tries to help Othello?

the handkerchief

What's the purpose of the clown in act 3?

to bring comic relief

The lost object is part of Iago's plan. What does he plan to do with it?

to plant it in Cassio's lodgings

What does Cassio convince Desdemona to do for him?

to talk to Othello so he can get his job back

What are Othello's tragic flaws?

trust to easily, quick to anger, and jealousy

What is another name for a technical climax?

turning point

What action in scene 3 uses irony?

when Othello knocks the handkerchief from Desdemona's hands

What does Iago call jealousy?

"a green-eyed monster"

How old was Othello when he became a soldier fighting in the field?

- 7 years old

How long has Othello been in Venice for?

- 9 months

Quote ID: "She is abus'd, stol'n from me, and corrupted by spells and medicines bought of mountebanks; for nature so preposterously to err being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense, sans witchcraft could not." (Act 1, scene 3, lines 60-64, pg 16)

- Brabantio is speaking - he says that is would be against nature to love this man (Othello) unless it was witchcraft or she was drugged

Quote ID: "It is a judgment maimed and most imperfect That will confess perfection so could err Against all rules of nature, and must be driven To find out practices of cunning hell Why this should be so." (act 1 scene 3, page 18, lines 99-104)

- Brabantio is speaking - he thinks that it's against nature for his daughter to be married to a man like Othello

Quote ID: "In honest plainness thou hast heard me say my daughter is not for thee." (Act 1, scene 1, lines 98-99, pg 5)

- Brabantio is speaking to rodergio - Brabantio exposes the audience that Rodergio tried to ask for Desdemona before

What happened in 1543?

- Capericus found heliocentric theory

Who was on the 1st ship (arriving at Cyprus)?

- Cassio

Quote ID: " Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost my immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial." (act 2 scene 3, page 52, lines 245-248)

- Cassio is speaking - he is drunk - he is upset because he was demoted and lost his reputation - body and soul - bestial=animal imagery

Quote ID: "Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost my immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!" (lines 245-248, page 52, act 2, scene 3)

- Cassio is speaking - he is speaking in prose because he is drunk - at this time people thought that the body and sould

Quote ID: ...."Tis my breeding That gives me this bold show of courtesy." (act 2 scene 1, page 33, lines 98-99)

- Cassio is speaking - he rubbed Iago the wrong way

Quote ID: "I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking." (lines 29-30, page 44, act 2, scene 3)

- Cassio is speaking to Iago - Cassio acknowledges that he can't hold the alcohol

What is the setting for Act 2?

- Cyprus

What happened in 1588?

- Defeat of the Spanish Armada - protestant nation defeated a catholic nation - Great Britain became most powerful country

Who speaks on behalf of Othello?

- Desdemona

Quote ID: "Why then tomorrow night, or Tuesday morn, On Tuesday noon or night; on Wednesday morn. I prithee name the time, but let it not. Exceed three days. In faith, he's penitent; And yet his trespass, in our common reason—Save that, they say, the wars must make example Out of her best—is not almost a fault T' incur a private check. When shall he come? Tell me, Othello. I wonder in my soul What you would ask me that I should deny, Or stand so mamm'ring on? What? Michael Cassio, That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time,When I have spoke of you dispraisingly, Hath ta'en your part—to have so much to do To bring him in! By 'r Lady, I could do much." (Lines 60-74, page 62, act 3, scene 3)

- Desdemona is speaking - Iago uses Cassio with Othello to reveal time that Othello wasn't there when Cassio and Desdemona were alone - this quote refers to when the great chain of being breaks chaos happens

Quote ID: "As I have spoken for you all my best And stood within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech. You must awhile be patient. What I can do I will; and more I will Than for myself I dare." (act 3 scene 4, page 85, lines 121-125)

- Desdemona is speaking - she is explaining that Othello is out of sorts

Who is Brabantio?

- Desdemona's father - member of Venetian Senate - doesn't like that his daughter married a black man

Quote ID: "Your son-in-law is far more fair than black." (act 1 scene 3, page 24, line 288)

- Duke is speaking - this is a pun

What happened in 1558?

- Elizabeth becomes queen

Quote ID: Villainy, villainy, villainy! I think upon't I think I smell't—O villainy! I though so then.—I'll kill myself for grief.— O villainy, villainy." (page 134)

- Emilia is speaking

Quote ID: "The world's a huge thing; it is a great price for a small vice." (act 4 scene 3, page 115, lines 67-68)

- Emilia is speaking - this quote rhymes

Quote ID: "Valiant Moor" (Act 1, scene 3, line 48, pg 15)

- First Senator says this - Valiant means courageous - the word valiant is a positive word - people will see Othello as noble

Who is Signior Montano?

- Governor of Cyprus

What happened in 1605?

- Gunpowder Plot

Why is Iago mad at Othello?

- He is mad at Othello for having passed him over for the position of lieutenant

Who convinces Roderigo to stick around?

- Iago

Which 2 characters speak in prose most often?

- Iago and Roderigo

Which 2 characters speak in prose the most?

- Iago and Roderigo

Quote ID: " She did deceive her father, marrying you; And when she seemed to shake and fear your looks, She loved thee most." (act 3 scene 3, page 68, lines 208-210)

- Iago is speaking

Quote ID: "For that I suspect the lusty Moor Hath leaped into my seat." (page 41)

- Iago is speaking

Quote ID: "When the blood is made dull with the act of sport, there should be, again to inflame it and to give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness in favour." (lines 219-221, page 39, act 2, scene 1)

- Iago is speaking - He is speaking to Roderigo - he is saying if Othello gets tired of sexual relations with Desdemona Cassio has things that Othello doesn't and that would make Othello jelly (Cassio is younger, and he has manners.)

Quote ID: "You or any man living may be drunk at a time, man....this crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before." (lines 293-305, page 54, act 2 scene 3)

- Iago is speaking - Iago is setting up a plan

Quote ID: "The Moor is of a free and open nature That thinks men honest that but seem to be so; And will as tenderly be led by th'nose As asses are." (page 28)

- Iago is speaking - animal imagery is used - Iago knows that Othello's weakness is that he trusts people too quickly

Quote ID: "Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe." (Act 1 scene 1, page 4, lines 89-90)

- Iago is speaking - black ram and white ewe= color imagery and animal/barnyard imagery

Quote ID: "Sir, would give you so much of her lips as her tongue she oft bestows on me you would have enough." (lines 100-102, page 33, act 2 scene 1)

- Iago is speaking - he is insulting his wife, Emilia - he insults her in public which is quite rude

Quote ID: "O, beware, my lord of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; But O, damned minutes tell he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts—suspects, yet fondly loves." (page 66)

- Iago is speaking - the green eyed monster refers to jealousy - Iago tells Othello that it's better to know if someone is sleeping with someone else

Quote ID: "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves!" (lines 167-172, page 66, act 3, scene 3)

- Iago is speaking - the green eyed monster refers to jealousy - Iago tells Othello that it's better to know if someone is sleeping with someone else

Quote ID: "I have't. It is engendered! Hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light." (act 1 scene 3, page 28, lines 394-95)

- Iago is speaking - this is a cuplet

Quote ID: "But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings or unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a set or scion." (act 1 scene 3, page 26, lines 325-328)

- Iago is speaking - he is saying it's not love it's lust

Quote ID: ...."This is the night That either makes me or fordoes me quite." (page 124)

- Iago is speaking - this is a cuplet - this is saying either I get everything I want or it will be a disaster

Quote ID: "And it is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets H'as done my office." (act 1 scene 3, page 27, lines 378-379)

- Iago is speaking - this quote is in one of his soliloquies

Quote ID: "I am not what I am" (Act 1, Scene 1, line 66, pg 3)

- Iago says this - this is a paradox - he was awarded position of Ancient (general) by Othello

Who is Emilia?

- Iago's wife - Desdemona's helper

Who was on the 2nd ship (arriving at Cyprus)?

- Iago, Desdemona, Roderigo, and Emilia

What news do we get of the Turkish fleet?

- It was destroyed in a terrible storm at sea

Quote ID: "Is this the noble Moor whom our full Senate Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature Whom passion could not shake? Whose solid virtue The shot of accident not dart of chance Could neither graze nor pierce?" (page 101)

- Lodovico is speaking - he is asking Iago if Othello is sane or not

What happened in 1605-06?

- Macbeth was written

What happened in 1517?

- Martin Luther posted 95 theses - age of faith

Where is Othello from?

- North Africa (specifically from Morocco)

What does Othello do when he finds out Cassio started the fight?

- Othello demotes Cassio

Quote ID: "You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus—Goats and monkeys." (act 4 scene 1, page 101, line 261)

- Othello is speaking

Quote ID: "Think, my lord? By heaven, thou echo'st me, As if there were some monster in thy thought Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something. I heard thee say even now, thou lik'st not that, When Cassio left my wife. What didst not like? And when I told thee he was of my counsel In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst, "Indeed!" And didst contract and purse thy brow together, As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain Some horrible conceit. If thou dost love me, Show me thy thought." (lines 108-117, page 64, act 3, scene 3)

- Othello is speaking - Iago has hinted and kind of told him the lie about Desdemona and Cassio - he thinks that Iago may not be so honest

Quote ID: "I had been happy, if the general camp, Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body, So I had nothing known. O now, forever Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars That makes ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats Th' immortal Jove's dread clamors counterfeit, Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone." (lines 346-358, page 74, act 3, scene 3)

- Othello is speaking - Othello is telling us he is unhinged - he is explaining that everything that he has worked towards in life has no meaning and that everything has gone to hell

Quote ID: "My parts, my title, and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly." (act 1 scene 2, page 10, lines 32-33)

- Othello is speaking - Othello knows his clear conscience

Quote ID: "So please your grace, my ancient: a man he is of honesty and trust. To his conveyance i assign my wife." (Act 1, scene 3, lines 281-283, pg 24)

- Othello is speaking - This shows that Othello's tragic flaw is trusting people too quickly - in this quote he is trusting too quickly

Quote ID: "Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! And when I love thee not Chaos is come again." (page 63)

- Othello is speaking - foreshadowing - she has a calming influence on a man - relates to when great of chain of being breaks chaos happens

Quote ID: "....By the world, I think my wife honest, and think she is not; I think thou art just, and think thou are not. I'll have some proof." (page 75)

- Othello is speaking - grammar is this quote is parallel construction

Quote ID: "I greet thy love, not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous; and will upon the instant put thee to't. Within these three days let me hear thee say that Cassio's not alive." (lines 471-475, page 78, act 3, scene 3)

- Othello is speaking - he is asking Iago to kill to Cassio within 3 days

Quote ID: "That's a fault. That handkerchief Did an Egyptian to my mother give; She was a charmer, and could almost read47 The thoughts of people. She told her, while she kept it, '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 loathed, and his spirits should hunt After new fancies. She, dying, gave it me, And bid me, when my fate would have me wiv'd, 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." (lines 52-64, page 81, act 3, scene 4)

- Othello is speaking - he is explaining that the handkerchief was given by a charmer and may be magical - Desdemona would be threatened if she loses the handkerchief and that would be a disaster

Quote ID: "It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars, It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of her than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know no Promethean heat That can thy light relume. (page 125)

- Othello is speaking - he is getting ready to kill Desdemona

Quote ID: "Haply for I am black, and have not those soft parts of conversation that chambers have." (lines 265-267, page 70, act 3, scene 3)

- Othello is speaking - he is saying because of my black background I'm not as smooth - if Desdemona betrayed me, I would hate her

Quote ID: "Lie with her? Lie on her?—We say lie on her when they belie her.—Lie with her! Zounds, that's a fulsome.—Handkerchief—confessions—handkerchief!—To confess, and be hanged for his labor—first to be hanged, and then to confess!" (page 90)

- Othello is speaking - he swears when he says zounds - punctuation/ fragmented mind

Quote ID: "Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it that the probation bear no hinge nor loop to hang a doubt on-or woe upon thy life!" (lines 365-367, page 74, act 3, scene 3)

- Othello is speaking - he threatens to kill Iago if he has no proof

Quote ID: "I fetch my life and being/ From men of royal siege" (act 1 scene 2, page 10, lines 21-22)

- Othello is speaking - nobility of a prince/ aristotelian figure

Quote ID: "She loved me for the dangers I had passed and I loved her that she did pity them." (act 1 scene 3, page 20, lines 166-167)

- Othello is speaking - owed allegiance to father

Quote ID: " Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that the'affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration." (page 130)

- Othello is speaking - the great chain of being relates to theory of correspondes- something happens to one part, like a mirror effect- - here Othello thinks that something should happen like an eclipse

Quote ID: ....."If I were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy; for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate." (page 38)

- Othello is speaking - the last 2 lines are foreshadowing that he will not be more happy anymore - there is dramatic irony

Quote ID: "If I do prove her haggard." (line 262, page 70, act 3, scene 3)

- Othello is speaking - the word haggard is a metaphor, an untrained bird, relates to Desdemona, and might have to let her go

Quote ID: ..."Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; O one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their med'cinable gum. Set you down this. And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th'throat the circumcised dog And smot him—thus." (page 141-142)

- Othello is speaking - this is Othello's final speech before he kills himself - he talks about how pure Desdemona was and he should be the one to go to hell not her - he sees himself as the enemy

Quote ID: "Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, till that a capable and wide revenge swallow them up. Not by yond marble heaven, in the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words." (lines 459-463, page 78, act 3, scene 3)

- Othello is speaking - this is where the dramatic climax occurs - stars=eyes of heaven

Quote ID: "Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee; and when I love thee not, Chaos come again." (Lines 90-92, page 63, act 3, scene 3)

- Othello is speaking - this quote is foreshadowing that she has a calming influence on a man

Quote ID: "If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy; for I fear my soul hath her content so absolute that not another comfort like to this succeeds in unknown fate." (lines 182-186, page 38, act 2 scene 1)

- Othello is speaking - he is saying if I were to die now it would be alright because he couldn't be more happy - the use of soul is referring to Desdemona - there is foreshadowing in the last 2 lines, foreshadowing not be more happy than he is now - there is dramatic irony because he won't he that happy again

What is the Herald's message in scene 2?

- Othello is throwing a party since they defeated the turks, and also want to celebrate his marriage

What happened in 1603-04?

- Othello was written

Who is Iago?

- Othello's ensign - he is the villain in Othello - a soldier - he's obsessed with money

Who is Cassio?

- Othello's lieutenant - honorable Florentine - has a weakness for women and drinking

What places are mentioned in act 1?

- Rhodes, Cyprus, Venice, and Turkey

Quote ID: "What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe, if he can carry it thus!" (Act 1, Scene 1, line 67, pg 3)

- Rodergio - this is an intentional racial slur towards Othello

Quote ID: "lascivious Moor." (Act 1, scene 1, line 126, pg 6)

- Rodergio is speaking to Brabantio - Rodergio characterization of Othello calling him horny

Quote ID: "In an extravagant and wheeling stranger" (Act 1, Scene 1, line 136, pg 6)

- Rodergio is speaking to Brabantio - Rodergio is calling Othello a player with lots of money

Who is referred to as "trash of Venice"?

- Roderigo

Quote ID: "I have no great devotion to this deed, And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons 'Tis but a man gone. Firth my sword! He dies!" (page 118)

- Roderigo is speaking - the first "he" is iago -the 2nd he is cassio - he is saying I'm going to kill someone like it's not a big deal

What happened in 1616?

- Shakespeare died

What happened in 1564?

- Shakespeare was born

What happened in 1516?

- Thomas more=humanism - Utopia

What are the 2 types of imagery in act 1?

- appearance vs. reality - animal/barnyard imagery

Quote ID: "But jealous soul will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. It is a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself." (page 86)

- emilia is speaking - she is saying jealousy doesn't haven't importance, it can be blown out of proportion

What does Iago find out at the end of scene 3?

- he knows that Othello's weakness is trusting too quickly

Cassio is upset he lost his position, but what else did he loose?

- he lost his reputation

What happens when Cassio gets drunk?

- he stabs Montano

What does iago watch happen between desdemona and Cassio?

- he watches them have a private moment

Who is Rodergio?

- he's from Venice - in love with Desdemona, but is being methodically cheated by Iago

Who is Roderigo?

- he's from Venice - in love with Desdemona, but it methodically cheated by Iago

Why does iago believe in Cassio and desdemona's relationship?

- healthy not lustful

Example of animal/barnyard imagery?

- in act 1, scene 1, Othello is described as a Barbary horse, and an old black ram

How does scene 3 of act 1 end?

- it ends with Iago having a soliloquy - also ends with a cuplet

What does Venice symbolize?

- law, order, civility, and Christianity

Quote ID: "Honest Iago" (act 1, scene 3, line 292, pg 25)

- othello is speaking - trusting too quickly - this is also an epithet

Who are groundlings?

- people who would have standing room only and pay the lowest price of admission.

What does iago tell roderigo?

- that desdemona really loves Cassio now

Quote ID: "Your son-in-law is far more fair than black" (act 1, scene 3, line 288, pg 24)

- the Duke is speaking - this is a pun

Who is the governor of Cyprus and what happens to him in scene 3?

- the governor is Montano - he gets stabbed

When Iago says "zounds" or "s'blood" what does this imply/mean?

- this is a curse - this implies that he is a bad person

What are the 2 types of climaxes in the story and when do they each happen?

1. technical climax (turning point): this happens when Iago gets the handkerchief 2. dramatic climax: when Iago and Othello both kneel and swear to the heavens

Othello asks Iago to perform a vital task concerning Cassio. What is it?

3 days to kill Cassio

Who does Cassio ask to make a copy of the handkerchief?

Bianca

Who is the 1st person to die and who is responsible for their death?

Brabantio dies first, and Desdemona is responsible

Who is the 3rd person to die and who is responsible for their death?

Desdemona, and Othello kills her

What happened to this object?

Emilia takes it and gives it to Iago

Who is the 4th person to die and who is responsible for their death?

Emilia, and she is killed by Iago

Who is the 5th person to die and who is responsible for their death?

Othello and he kills himself

What happened in 1603?

Queen Elizabeth dies and King James ascends takes thrown