| Othello | Protagonist |
| Brabantio | Desdemona’s father |
| Emilia | Iago’s wife |
| Iago | Antagonist |
| Michael Cassio | Protagonist’s lieutenant |
| Iago wants his money | Why is Iago friends with Roderigo? |
| Michael Cassio | Who does othello make his lieutenant? |
| Othello picked Cassio to be his lieutenant, not Iago | Why does Iago hate othello? |
| No | Is Cassio married? |
| A North African | What is a moor? |
| A flag-bearer | What is an ancient? |
| Iago. 1 | I follow him to serve my turn upon him, we cannot all be masters, nor all masters can be truly followed. |
| Iago | Who is the antagonist and a moral nihilist? |
| Iago | Who has other people do his tasks? |
| Desdemona | Who is othello having sex with? |
| Roderigo | Iago tells someone to go tell Brabantio about Des. and Othello, who? |
| Brabantio | Who does Iago say, “You are a senator”, to? |
| He is needed for war | Why will Othello not get in trouble for his actions? |
| Brabantio. 1 | O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood! Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds by what you see them act. — is there not charms by which the property of youth and maidhood may be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo, of some such thing? |
| 1.2 | When does othello speak his first lines? |
| Iago. 2 | With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio |
| Brabantio. 1 | Damned as thou art, thou hast enchanted her! For I’ll refer me to all things of sense, if she in chains of magic were not bound, whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy, so opposite to marriage that she shunned the wealthy curlèd darlings of our nation, would ever have, t’ incur a general mock, run from her guard age to the sooty bosom of such things as thou– to fear, not to delight! |
| Turks | Who is attacking othello’s army? |
| Othello. 1 | ‘Twas pitiful, ’twas wondrous pitiful. She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished that heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me, and bade me, if I had a fried that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, and that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake. She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them. |
| Iago | Who is assigned by othello to watch his wife? |
| 28 | How old is Iago? |
| Iago. 1 | Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners. |
| A storm destroyed them. | What happened to the Turkish fleets? |
| Cyprus and Venice | Where does the play take place? |
| Montano and Cassio | Who fights in 2.3? |
| Iago. 2 | Ay, that’s the way. Dull not device by coldness and delay. |
| Othello. 4 | Goats and monkeys! |
| Iago. 3 | Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, |
| Othello. 4 | O thou weed, who art so lovely fair, and smell’st so sweet that the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne’er been born! |
| Desire for reconciliation | What are wedding sheets symbolic for? |
| Emilia. 4 | O, fie upon them! Some such squire he was that turned your wit the seamy side without and made you to suspect me with the moor. |
| Desdemona. 4 | Unkindness may do much, and his unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love. |
| Iago. 4 | Why now I see there’s mettle in thee. |
| Cassio | Who will be replacing othello? |
| Othello | Who does Iago plan to stab? |
| Grief, unrequited love, infidelity | What does the willow song stand for? |
| Iago. 5 | If Cassio do remain, he hath a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly. |
| Othello. 5 | Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted. |
| Iago. 1 | For when my outward action doth demonstrate the native act and figure of my heart in complement extern, ’tis not long after but I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at. I am not what I am. |
| Roderigo. 5 | O damned Iago! O inhuman dog! |
| The whole world | What does Emilia say she would cheat for? |
| Othello. 5 | 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 out out thy light, thou cunning’st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat that can thy light resume. |
| Othello. 5 | Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee and love thee after. |
| A broken heart | What did Desdemona symbolically die from? |
| Desdemona. 5 | Nobody. I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord. O, farewell. |
| Othello. 5 | She’s a liar gone to burning hell! ‘Twas I that killed her. |
| Othello. 5 | An honest man he is, and hates the slime that sticks on filthy deeds. |
| Iago. 5 | I told him what I thought, and told no more than what he found himself was apt and true. |
| 5.2 | When is Emilia’s epiphany? |
| Iago | Who kills Emilia? |
| Emilia. 5 | What did thy song bode, lady? Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan and die in music. |
| Iago. 5 | What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak a word. |
| Othello. 5 | Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely, but too well; of 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. |
| Othello. 5 | I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss. |
| Lodovico. 5 | Myself will straight aboard, and to the state this heavy act with heavy heart relate. |
| Bianca | Michael Cassio’s mistress |
| Montano | Governor of Cyprus |
| Lodovico | Desdemona’s cousin |
| Gratiano | Desdemona’s uncle |
| Othello. 3.3 | I want him dead within three days |
| Othello. 2 | My soul hath her content so absolute that not another comfort like to this succeeds in unknown fate. |
| Othello. 2 | The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue; that profit’s yet to come ‘tween me and you. |
| Iago. 2 | If consequence do but approve my dream, my boat sails freely both wind and stream. |
| Montano. 2 | And to defend ourselves it be a sin. When violence assails us. |
| Iago. 2 | How am I then a villain to counsel Cassio to this parallel course directly to his good? Divinity of hell! |
| Iago. 2 | So will I turn her virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all. |
| Othello. 3 | Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul but i do love thee! And when I love thee not, chaos is come again. |
| Othello. 3 | And for I know thou ‘rt full of love and honesty and weigh’st thy words before thou giv’st them breath. |
| Iago | 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 |
| Othello. 3.3 | Your napkin is too little. [The handkerchief falls.] |
| Othello. 3 | There’s magic in the web of it. |
| Emilia. 3 | They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; they eat us hungerly, and when they are full they belch us. |
| Brabantio. 1.3 | Look to her moor, if thou has eyes to see. |
| Iago. 2 | Ay, that’s the way. Dull not device by coldness and delay. |
| Cyprus | Cassio to rule in _______. |
| Iago. 1 | A fellow almost damned in a fair wife, that never set a squadron in the field. |
| Iago. 3 | She did deceive her father, marrying you |
| Iago. 1 | For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heartIn compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am. |
| Othello. 2 | My blood begins my safer guides to rule, And passion, having my best judgment collied, Assays to lead the way. If I once stir, Or do but lift this arm, the best of youShall sink in my rebuke. |
| Othello. 1 | She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake. |
| Othello and Emilia | What characters are dynamic? |
| Iago | Who is a static character? |
Othello: Study Guide
August 9, 2019