Othello Act 5 Scene 2 Exam Questions And Answers 2024

A chamber in the citadel, Desdemona lies asleep in bed - correct answer-bed symbolic, liebestod, almost like consummation? Othello: It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. - correct answer-diacope, sacrifice Othello: Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow - correct answer-hyperbaton, contrast. blood and white symbolic? married chastity, virginity, blood on wedding sheets - there will be no blood, Desdemona dies physically and spiritually innocent and chaste Othello: Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men - correct answer- Othello: put out the light, and then put out the light - correct answer-antanaclasis, euphemistically speaking of killing Desdemona - internal conflict, still sees her innocence (light) Othello: When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again: it needs must wither - correct answer-yonic? Othello: (he kisses her) O balmy breath. - correct answer-Alliteration, takes pleasure? liebestod Othello: (he kisses her): so sweet was ne'er so fatal - correct answer-liebestod Othello: I must weep, but they are cruel tears - correct answer-tears anthropomorphism, intensity of emotion Othello: If you bethink yourself of any crime Unreconciled as yet to to heaven and grace, solicit for it straight - correct answer-religious context, wants her to pray, sibilance Othello: I would not kill thy unprepared spirit; No - heaven forfend - I would not kill thy soul - correct answer-anaphora 'I would not', speaks in religious terms, antinomian heresy of patriarchs Othello: Think on thy sins Desdemona: They are loves I bear to you Othello: Ay, and for that thou diest - correct answer-MISCOMMUNICATION, Desdemona's love exceeds her worship of God, sinful. Othello interprets as confession of adultery Othello: sweet soul, take heed, Take heed of perjury: thou art on thy death-bed - correct answer-epizeuxis, sounds religious? Desdemona: Ay, but not yet to die ... Othello: Thou art to die - correct answer-patriarchal power over life and death Desdemona: Then Lord have mercy on me! Othello: I say, amen. Desdemona: and you have mercy too! - correct answer-stops edifying Othello as Lord, wise? Othello: O perjured woman, thou dost stone my heart - correct answer-blaming the victim Othello: He hath confessed Desdemona: What, my lord? O: That he hath used thee D: How? Unlawfully? O: Ay D: He will not say so - correct answer-stichomythia Desdemona: Alas, he is betrayed, and I-undone - correct answer-MISCOMMUNICATION. Desdemona means: that he is treacherously killed and she's doomed Othello interprets that his sin has been discovered and she is revealed to be an adultress Othello: Out, strumpet! Weep'st thou for him to my face? - correct answer- Desdemona: but while I say one prayer Othello: It is too late Desdemona: O Lord, Lord, Lord - (he smothers her) - correct answer-stichomythia, epizeuxis, Othello doesn't allow Desdemona pray, patriarch's absolute control of a woman's fate including afterlife, knew that possibly was sending her for damnation? Desdemona's epizeuxis is polysemic, is she calling God (therefore suggesting desperation) or to Othello (complete passiveness even when faces with death) Emilia: (beyond the door) My lord, my lord! What, ho! my lord, my lord! - correct answer-staging - Emilia unified with Desdemona's suffering? universal experience of women subjugated and abused by patriarchal society.