YOU ARE TO DISCUSS THE QUOTATION WHOSE NUMBER CORRESPONDS TO THAT OF YOUR GROUP. YOUR TASK IS TO ANSWER THE QUESTION:

What is the significance of the following monologues or dialogues 1) to the scenes in which they appear, and ) to the play as a whole?

GROUP 1

Act IV, Scene i, p 936, lines 36-42

OTHELLO: Lie with her? Lie on her?--We say lie on her when they belie her.--Lie with her! Zounds, that's fulsome.­Handkerchief­ confessions--handkerchief!--To confess, and be hanged for his labor--first to be hanged, and then to confess! I tremble at it. Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion without some instruction. It is not words that shakes me thus.--Pish! Noses, ears, and lips? Is't possible?--Confess?--Handkerc hief?--O devil?

GROUP 2

Act IV, Scene i, p 940, lines 188-194

OTHELLO: Get me some poison, Iago, this night. I'll not expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again. This night, Iago?

IAGO: Do it not with poison. Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated.

OTHELLO: Good, good! The justice of it pleases. Very good!F

IAGO: And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker. You shall hear more by midnight.

GROUP 3

Act IV, Scene ii, p 946, lines 129-135

EMILIA to Desdemona and Iago: I will be hanged if some eternal villain,

Some busy and insinuating rogue,

Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,

Have not devised this slander. I will be hanged else.

IAGO: Fie, there is no such man! It is impossible.

DESDEMONA: If any such there be, heaven pardon him.

EMILIA: A halter pardon him! And hell gnaw his bones!]

GROUP 4

Act V, Scene ii, p 959, lines 116-128

DESDEMONA to Othello and Emilia after her suffocation:

O, falsely, falsely murdered!

EMILIA: O Lord! What cry is that?

OTHELLO: That? What?

EMILIA: Out and alas! that was my lady's voice.

Help! Help, ho! Help! O lady, speak again

Sweet Desdemona! O sweet mistress, speak!

DESDEMONA: A guiltless death I die.

EMILIA: O, who hath done this deed?

DESDEMONA: Nobody--I myself. Farewell.

Commend me to my kind lord. O, farewell!

OTHELLO: Why how should she be murd'red?

EMILIA:Alas, who knows?

OTHELLO: You heard her say herself, it was not I.

EMILIA: She said so. I must needs report the truth.

OTHELLO: She's like a liar gone to burning hell!

'Twas I that killed her.

EMILIA:O, the more angel she,

And you the blacker devil.

GROUP 5

Act V, Scene ii, p 961, lines 222-233

EMILIA after the death of Desdemona:

O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou speak'st of

I found by fortune, and did give my husband;

For often with a solemn earnestness--

More than indeed belonged to such a trifle--

He begged of me to steal't.

IAGO: Villainous whore!

EMILIA: She give it Cassio? No, alas, I found it,

And I did give't my husband.

IAGO:Filth, thou liest!F

EMILIA: By heaven, I do not, I do not, gentlemen.

O murd'rous coxcomb! What should such a fool

Do with so good a wife?

OTHELLO:Are there no stones in heaven

But what serves for the thunder? Precious villain!

GROUP 6

Act V, Scene ii, p 964, lines 336-352

OTHELLO:I pray you, in your letters,

When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,

Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate,

Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak

Of one that loved not wisely, but too well;

Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought,

Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,

Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away

Richer than all his tribe;

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And say besides that in Aleppo once,

Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk

Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,

I took him by th' throat the circumcised dog

And smote him--thus.