Hint | Placement | Person | Quote | % Correct |
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Deception - Repeated throughout the play by a variety of characters. An oxymoron. | Othello | 'Honest Iago.' | 46%
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Racism - sexual comments to proboke Brabantio, and impying that non-Whites are animals. | 1 : 1 | Iago | 'your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.' | 25%
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Virtues - Othello portrays Desdemona as strong, yet gentle. | Othello | 'O, my fair warrior!' | 21%
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Virtues - Othello and Desdemona have a pure love based on compassion. | Othello | 'She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.' | 17%
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Virtues - Othello is held in high regard by the Venetian Duke. | 1 : 3 | Duke | 'Valiant Othello we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman.' | 17%
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Virtues - Othello is considered good natured and civil, unrepresentative of his skin colour. | Duke | 'Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.' | 17%
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Virtues - Desdemona dies innocent. | Desdemona | 'A guiltless death I die.' | 13%
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Virtues - Cassio cares mostly about his social standing and that is what drives his character. | Cassio | 'O, I have lost my reputation!' | 13%
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Virtues - Jealousy is seen as a negative force which corrupts and harms, Iago even gives this warning, yet Othello embraces it all the same, and this description prooves accurate. | Iago | 'O beware, my lord, of jealousy: it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.' | 8%
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Sexism - To betray the patriarchal system (through marrying independently), you betray the state. | Brabantio | 'O treason of the blood!' | 8%
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Virtues - Desdemona has control over Othello, likely due to their love. | Cassio | 'our great captain's captain.' | 8%
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Virtues - Links to baptism and cleanliness. | Othello | 'She was false as water.' | 8%
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Racism - Argues that Turks are synonomous with savagery and ill-behaviour. | Othello | 'Are we turned Turks' | 4%
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Virtues - Compliments towards Cassio. | 2 : 3 | Iago | 'He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar.' | 4%
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Virtues - Brabantio is hardly mentioned. | Lodovico | 'I am glad thy father's dead.' | 4%
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Sexism - Emilia stands against Iago and is bound to speak through her independence. | Emilia | 'I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak.' | 4%
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Sexism - Emilia argues that women are just as sensible as men are. | Emilia | 'Let husbands know their wives have sense like them.' | 4%
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Virtues - Othello sees himself as losing the most valuable artifact he could, Desdemona, which was worthier than anything else. | Othello | 'Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe.' | 4%
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Virtues - Othello is confident in his virtues as a person. | 1 : 2 | Othello | 'My parts, my title, and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly.' | 4%
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Virtues - Othello claims that his love has faded, it has hardened and is uncomprimising. | Othello | 'No, my heart is turned to stone: I strike it and it hurts my hand.' | 4%
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Sexism - Iago argues that a woman's job is to produce children. | Iago | 'You rise to play and go to bed to work.' | 4%
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Virtues - Cassio does not want to be seen with Bianca as it would damage his reputation, something he values above love. | Cassio | 'And think it no addition, nor my wish, to have him see me womaned.' | 0%
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Racism - Othello releases his innate self from his suppressed mental blockades. | Othello | 'Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!' | 0%
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Deception - The use of language here by Iago suggests to Othello that Cassio is guilty and a thief, setting that thought into Othello's mind. | 3 : 3 | Iago | 'Cassio, my lord? No, sure I cannot think it that he would steal away so guilty-like.' | 0%
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Racism - Brabantio is conviced that one mixed race couple will collapse the civilised Venitian society. | Brabantio | 'For if such actions may have passage free, bondslaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.' | 0%
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Deception - Othello believes that Iago should suffer, and that death is too quick for him. | Othello | 'For in my sense 'tis happiness to die.' | 0%
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Deception - Iago believes he has a motive for his actions, yet, it conflicts with his other motives of career advancement and racism. Is he decieving the audience? | Iago | ''For that I do suspect the lusty Moor hath leaped into my seat.' | 0%
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Virtues - Othello appears to still love Cassio, yet he is obliged to refuse him. | 3 : 1 | Emilia | 'He might not but refuse you; but he protests he loves you.' | 0%
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Sexism - Emilia argues that it is men who are to blame for a wives fall. | 4 : 3 | Emilia | 'I do think it is their husbands' faults if wives do fall.' | 0%
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Virtues - She's an angel, if she were to be false, it would be God mocking its own heralds. | Othello | 'If she be false, O then heaven mocks itself; I'll not believe it.' | 0%
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Deception - By showing that he doesn't want to do harm to Cassio, Othello infers that Iago is watering down the truth to protect Cassio. Iago decieves Othello expertly. | Iago | 'I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offence to Michael Cassio.' | 0%
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Deception - True to Othello, if he was wise then he would not be blinded by Iago's 'honsety'. | Iago | 'I should be wise; for honesty's a fool.' | 0%
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Deception - Despite Desdemona claiming to be innocent, Othello remains unconvinced, showing how deep Iago's manipulation has struck him. | Othello | 'I took you for that cunning whore of Venice that married with Othello.' | 0%
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Deception - Emilia figures out Iago's deception before any man and wishes him to suffer. | Emilia | 'may his pernicious soul rot half a grain a day!' | 0%
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Deception - Othello believes Desdemona's lover to be dead, both are falsehoods. | 5 : 1 | Othello | 'Minion, your dear lies dead, and your unblest fate lies.' | 0%
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Virtues - People would not believe that Othello had fallen so far as to strike his wife. | Lodovico | 'My lord, this would not be believed in Venice.' | 0%
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Virtues - Othello believes he's lost his wife, through her death and through her 'adultery'. | Othello | 'My wife, my wife! What wife? I have no wife.' | 0%
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Racism - Through killing his wife, the 'black' in Othello comes out, paralleling the devil. | Emilia | 'O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil.' | 0%
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Virtues - Othello is further complimented. | 2 : 2 | Herald | 'our noble and valiant general.' | 0%
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Racism - Brabantio does not believe Othello could simply 'win' Desdemona, and that she had to have been corrupted. | Brabantio | 'She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted by spells' | 0%
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Virtues - Othello doesn't see himself as who he was, Iago's manipulation has changed him. | Othello | 'That he that was Othello: here I am.' | 0%
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Deception - We expect a large naval battle, but instead the Ottoman fleet is removed without a second glance. | 2 : 1 | Gentleman | 'The desperate temperest hath so banged the Turks' | 0%
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Deception - Emilia figures out that Othello has been manipulated. | Emilia | 'The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave.' | 0%
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Virtues - Othello argues that Desdemona needs to become more chaste, as does their marriage (represented by the hand). | 3 : 4 | Othello | 'This hand of yours requires a sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer.' | 0%
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Deception - Iago brags about how effective his deception is, how he has ensnared worthy and good characters, all innocent, into his schemes and plots. | 4 : 1 | Iago | 'Thus credulous fools are caught; and many worthy and chaste dames even thus, all guiltless, meet reproach. | 0%
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Deception - Iago convinces Roderigo to fund him for his endeavours. | Iago | 'Thus do I ever make my fool my purse.' | 0%
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Virtues - Away from Venice, Othello is complemented regularly. | Montano | 'tis a worthy governor.' | 0%
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Virtues - Iago implies that it is a whores destiny to beguile many men, yet to fall for one, someone who is typically unattainable. | Iago | 'tis the strumpets plague to beguile many and be beguiled by one.' | 0%
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Virtues - Emilia is confident that Desdemona is innocent. | 4 : 2 | Emilia | 'to wager she is honest, lay down my soul at stake.' | 0%
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Virtues - Othello wishes to be cleansed through harsh punishment in hell. | Othello | 'Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire.' | 0%
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Virtues - Othello doesn't want his final deed to block out all the good he has done, that is not who he is, he's a valiant warrior. | Othello | 'When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate.' | 0%
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Deception - Othello acknowledges that he was caught by Iago in his schemes. | Othello | 'Why he hath ensnared my soul and body?' | 0%
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Sexism - Othello still values Desdemona's body, and he thinks of her body as valuable still, despite his issues with her person. | 5 : 2 | Othello | 'Yet I'll not shed her blood, nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.' | 0%
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