Sachem East English Department Name:___________________________________ English 10 Othello Act 1 Study Guide Period: _______ Date: ___________ Othello Act 1 Study Guide Period: _______ Date: ___________ The content of this Study Guide was created by Bonnie Faust. Please ask permission before copying or duplicating this Study Guide. Othello by William Shakespeare Act 1 Students are responsible for the following information from each scene. They should be keeping notes from class discussions in their notebooks and referring to these questions as we read in class. Scene i 1. Who are the following characters? Iago, Roderigo, Othello, Desdemona, Cassio, Brabantio? 2. In which city does the story start out? 3. Why is Roderigo upset with Othello? 4. Why is Iago upset with Othello? 5. Why do certain characters refer to Othello as "the Moor, the one with thick-lips, the black ram, and the Barbary horse"? What does this say about those characters AS WELL as Othello? 6. How does Iago defend his position under Othello? What is his motive? 7. What does Iago propose in order to set his plan in motion? 8. What do we learn about Othello as a result of indirect characterization? 9. What example from the text exposes Iago as a hypocrite? 10. Both Iago and Roderigo have been rejected in some form because of Othello. What purpose does this serve in the play? Scene ii 1. Why is Iago’s warning to Othello ironic? 2. Why does Othello remain calm even though Brabantio is angry? 3. How does Othello’s language express a feeling of relaxed acceptance to others? 4. What does Cassio tell Othello? 5. What does Brabantio accuse Othello of? 6. Why does Brabantio find it hard to believe that Desdemona loves Othello? Scene iii 1. Describe the subplot of the war with the Turks. 2. How does Othello explain his marriage to the Duke? 3. What does the Duke determine? 4. What do Desdemona and her mother have in common? 5. How does Brabantio feel after the Duke’s ‘verdict’ of the marriage of Othello and Desdemona? 6. Who is responsible for Desdemona’s journey? 7. How does Roderigo feel at the end of the scene? 8. What does Iago’s soliloquy reveal? 9. Who is the major antagonist of the play? 10. What are some of the dominant themes established in the first Act?

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Othello by William Shakespeare Act 1

Students are responsible for the following information from each scene. They should be keeping notes from class discussions in their notebooks and referring to these questions as we read in class. Scene i 1. Who are the following characters? Iago, Roderigo, Othello, Desdemona, Cassio, Brabantio? 2. In which city does the story start out? 3. Why is Roderigo upset with Othello? 4. Why is Iago upset with Othello? 5. Why do certain characters refer to Othello as "the Moor, the one with thick-lips, the black ram,

and the Barbary horse"? What does this say about those characters AS WELL as Othello? 6. How does Iago defend his position under Othello? What is his motive? 7. What does Iago propose in order to set his plan in motion? 8. What do we learn about Othello as a result of indirect characterization? 9. What example from the text exposes Iago as a hypocrite? 10. Both Iago and Roderigo have been rejected in some form because of Othello. What purpose

does this serve in the play?

Scene ii 1. Why is Iago’s warning to Othello ironic? 2. Why does Othello remain calm even though Brabantio is angry? 3. How does Othello’s language express a feeling of relaxed acceptance to others? 4. What does Cassio tell Othello? 5. What does Brabantio accuse Othello of? 6. Why does Brabantio find it hard to believe that Desdemona loves Othello? Scene iii 1. Describe the subplot of the war with the Turks. 2. How does Othello explain his marriage to the Duke? 3. What does the Duke determine? 4. What do Desdemona and her mother have in common? 5. How does Brabantio feel after the Duke’s ‘verdict’ of the marriage of Othello and

Desdemona? 6. Who is responsible for Desdemona’s journey? 7. How does Roderigo feel at the end of the scene? 8. What does Iago’s soliloquy reveal? 9. Who is the major antagonist of the play? 10. What are some of the dominant themes established in the first Act?