Othello initial Qs

1. Iago and Roderigo wake Brababtio to inform him that his daughter has married the moor.
2. Brabantio believes Othello won Desdemona by using magic.
3. Othello believed he won Desdemona through the tales of his war victories.
4. Othello appeared before the senate as they were under the assumption that he had abducted Desdemona because he is needed for a military decision.
5. He was a slave in Africa.
6. Othello is described as ‘the moor’ by his own wife. He is also called ‘more fair than black’.
7. Brabantio’s rhyming couplet ‘Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee’ gives a sense of foreboding for the audience because Othello is convinced by Lago that Desdemona does betray him and has an affair with Cassio.
8. The dramatic irony is ‘my life upon her fate’ because Othello ends up killing Desdemona instead of protecting her.
9. Iago persuades Roderigo to give him money.
10. The audience/reader learns character traits of Iago; for example his spitefulness and manipulation, also his determination to seek revenge against Othello.