OTHELLO By William Shakespeare

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Context questions and answers.

Act 1 scene 1

  1.  Thou told’st  me thou didist hold him in thy hate.
  2. … bur he, a loving his own pride and purpose, evades them,  with a bombast circumstance.    

Questions

  1. Who is A in the speech above?
  2. Who is B in above statement?
  3. Where are the speaker? 
  4. What does the underlined expression, bombast circumstance mean? 
  5. Who joins them later in the conversation?

SUGGESTED ANSWER

  1. “A” is Roderigo
  2. “B” is Lago
  3.  A street in Venice
  4.  It means boastful discourse 
  5. The person who joins them is Brabantio

 

ACT 1 SC.1

A:  I think can discover him, if you please. To get a good guard and go along with me.

B:   pray you, lead on. At every house, I’ll call … and raise some special officers of night.

Questions

  1.  Who is ‘A’ above and who is ‘B’?
  2. Where are the speakers?
  3. What has just happened?
  4. Who is affected by the incident?

SUGGESTED ANSWER

  1. “A” is Roderigo, ‘B’ is Brabnatio
  2. They are in a street in Venice
  3. A robbery has just taken place
  4. Brabantio’s daughter is missing

ACT 1 SC. 2

O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow’d my daughter?

QUESTIONS

  1. Who is the speaker?
  2. Who is referred to as foul thief?
  3. What does the speaker intend to do?
  4. Who else is with them?
  5. Where are these people?

SUGGESTION ANSWER

  1. The speaker is Brabantio
  2. Othello is called foul thief
  3. He intends to fight him
  4. Lagos is there also
  5. They are in another street in Venice

ACT 1 SC. 3

A:   There is no composition in this news, that gives them credit. 

  1.   Indeed, they are Disproportion’s, my letter says a hundred and seventy galleys 

QUESTIONS

  1.    Speaker ‘A’ is who?
  2. Who is speaker ‘B’?
  3. Where are the two speakers?
  4. Later, people entered. Mention any two of them.

 

SUGGESTION ANSWER

  1. Speaker ‘a’ is the Duke
  2. Speaker ‘B’ is the first senator 
  3. They are sitting at a table in the council chamber in Venice 
  4. Brabantic and Othello.

X: methinks the wind had spoke aloud at land: a fuller blast ne’er shook our battlements… what shall we hear of this?

Y: A segregation of the Turkish fleet:  for do but stand upon the foaming shore.

QUESTIONS

  1. The speaker represented by ‘A’ is?
  2. Who is speaker ‘B’ above?
  3. What does ‘B’ do after his speech?
  4. Who else is around with them?

SUGGESTED ANSWER

  1.  The speaker represented by ‘A’ is?
  2. Speaker ‘B’ is Othello
  3. He kisses her afterward
  4. Lago is with them
  1. She’s a most exquisite lady
  2. And I’ii want her, full of game

 

QUESTIONS

  1. ‘She’ in the above conversation refers to who?
  2. Who is speaker x?
  3. Who is speaker Y?
  4. Which other character is with them?

SUGGESTED ANSWER

    ‘She’ is Desdemona

  1.  Speaker ‘X’ is casslo
  2. Speaker ‘Y’ is Lago
  3. Montana is with them.

ACT 3 SC.1

  A:  Masters, play here; I will content your pains… Good morrow, general 

  B:  why masters, have your instruments been in Naples that they speak in the nose thus?

C:  how, sir, how?       

QUESTIONS

  1. ‘A’ is who?
  2. Who is B?
  3. Speaker c is who?
  4. Where are speakers?

SUGGESTION ANSWER

  1. ‘a’ is cassio
  2. ‘b’ is a clown 
  3. ‘c’ is first musician
  4. They are before the castle in Cyprus

ACT 3 SC.3

Speaker ‘M’: Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell yield up, o love,    thy crown and hearted throne… 

  Speaker ‘N’: Patience, I say, your mind perhaps may change.

QUESTIONS

  1. Speaker ‘M’ is who?
  2. Who is speaker ‘N; above?
  3. Where are the speaker?
  4. What do the speakers do afterwards? 

SUGGESTION ANSWER

    1.  Speaker ‘M’ is Othello 
    2. Speaker ‘N’ is Lago 
  • They are in the garden of the castle
  • Both of them kneel

ACT IV SC.1

Lie with hairline on herl we say iie on her, when they belle her. lle with her, that’s fulsome…

QUESTIONS

  1. Who is the speaker above?
  2. Whom is he talking with?
  3. Where are the speakers?
  4. What happens to the speaker?

SUGGESTION ANSWER

    1. The speaker is Othello 
    2. He is taking with Lago
    3. They are before the castle in Cyprus
    4. The speaker (Othello) falls into a trance.

ACT IV SC. 2

I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest. Lay down my soul at stake: if you think other, Remove your thought it doth abuse your bosom… 

 

QUESTIONS

  • Who is the speaker above?
  • Who is addressed as my Lord?
  • Where are the speakers?
  • Who did the speaker re-enter with later in the conversation?

SUGGESTION ANSWER

  1. The speaker is Emllia
  2. Othello is addressed as “Lord”
  3. They are in a room in the castle
  4. Emilla re-enters with Desdemona 

ACT V SC.1

I have no great devotion to the deed. And yet hath given me satisfying reasons. Ts a but man was gone. Forth, my sword, he dies.

QUESTIONS

  1. Who is to die this scene? 2. Who made the statement?
  2. Whom is the speaker talking with? 4. What ensued afterwards?

SUGGESTIONS ANSWER

  1. Cassio to die. 
  2. Roderigo made the Statement.
  3.  He is talking with Lago 
  4. They fight and cassio is wounder

ACT V SC. 2

It is the cause, it the cause, my soul- let me not name it to you, you chaste stars.

  1. Where is the speaker? 
  2. Who is the speaker?
  3. Whom is the speaker talking to?
  4. What is the person being addressed?
  5. What happened to the addressed?

SUGGESTION ANSWER

  1.  The speaker is in a bed chamber in the castle.
  2. The speaker is Othello.
  3. Desdemona is asleep.
  4. Othello stifles her and she dies.      

 

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