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Othello Act 3 S.G.

Please Answer the questions in full sentences.
1. Why does Cassio bring musicians? What is Othellos response to them?
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2. What does Emilia tell Cassio that Desdemona is already doing for him?
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3. What responses do Iago and Othello have to seeing Cassio leave Desdemona?
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4. How successfully does Desdemona plead for Cassio? What is Othello's response to Desdemona
as she leaves?
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5. Why doesn't Iago simply tell Othello right away that Desdemona and Cassio are having an affair?
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6. Othellos love for Desdemona is solid as can be seen through line 93 of Act 3, Scene 3. ( p.5
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, /But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, /Chaos is
come again.)Why does he become a man in misery by his next speech . What has moved him from
love to jealousy?
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7. How can anyone provide proof of fidelity? Why?
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8. What thing does Emilia find and give to Iago? What does Iago intend to do with it?
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9. What is Iago's reply when Othello demanded proof of his wife's disloyalty?
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10. What does Othello decide and command at the end of Scene 3?
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11. How likely is it that Othello will keep an open mind until he has seen real proof? How much have
Iago's suggestions about Desdemona's "nature" worked on Othello?
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12. Is there any chance of his changing his mind or of Desdemona's convincing him of her innocence
after this speech?
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13. What is Emilia's relationship with Iago? Desdemona?
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14. What, according to Othello, is the history of the handkerchief (3.4.53-73)? Is Othello telling the
truth here? What else might he be doing?
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15. What does the argument in 3.4.75-95 (between Othello & Desdemona) show about both Othello
and Desdemona?
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16. What is Emilia's view of men (3.4.99-102)? How justified is she?
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17. Who is Bianca? What is her relationship to Cassio? What does he ask her to do? What is her
emotional response? Sound familiar? How does Cassio get the handkerchief?
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18. Who had the handkerchief at the end of Act 3? Why?
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