Happy New Year to you all!May the new year bring you all you wish. Hope you are having a good time as well!
And back to work, how are you doing with Othello? Have you finished reading it? Did you have problems understanding anything? I'm posting here the key to the exercises from chapter 4 to chapter 10.
BTW, do you know who those two ladies in the picture might be? and what about the two men in the key? How do you know?
8 comments:
I think Othello´s book is easy to read and very interesting. I´m now ending it, although I have to read it again to learn more.
paqui
Happy new year to you all!
I´ve just finished Othello and I think it´s that kind of tale that is still up to date in spite of the centuries that have been since It was written.
Although the characters behave in a way that could seem us a little weird, they all suffer the same griefs as current peoble do and aspect like racism, jealousy, evil, love... are what make this book delightful.
The part I liked the most was the end but I won´t tell you anything because I don´t want to spoil the ones who hadn´t read it yet.
See you soon.
Carlos NI1
I think that one key of exercice 3, on page 52, is wrong: E1-4 is not 'owes' but 'lent'. Isn't it?
And on page 101, the answer of question j is Yago, but not Roderigo: Iago wounds Cassio in the leg.
I like this book. There are a lot of work to do, and the exercices are very interesting and with them I remember some grammar, for example: reporter speech ..
In the pictures the two ladies are Desdemona ,who is wife's Othello and Emilia who is wife's Iago.
I've been reading Othello since october and I've just finised now.
Isabel NI1
It's wonderful news that you've been working hard on the book!!
I agree with Carlos that the story is still valid for our times since human character doesn't change much through history. There are still a lot of Iagos, Othellos and Desdemonas out there.
As for the errors in the KEY, you are right, Esther! Thanks!
Exercice 3, on page 52, is wrong: E1-4 is not 'owes' but 'lent'.
And it is Iago who hurts Cassio on his leg, not Rodrigo, p. 101
I'll see you in a while!
Hello!
I´m late , but I´m here.
During the first days of my Christmas Hollidays I couldn´t read the book. But in the last days I could obtain the text again and I achieved reading it and doing the exercices.
Despite of some dificulties with my time, I can say I´ve liked to read Othello. It´s an old story, but its strength makes it new at the same time.
I think the adapted version is good.
The two ladies in the picture might be Desdemona and Emilia. The black men in the key might be Othello. The other one might be Iago wishpering words to make Othello suspect about his wife.
“Othello”, it is a classic of the literature for an obvius reason and it is because the plot treats a subject that always will be current importance as " the jealousies " always joined the binomial love - hatred. Surely, it is possible to change the scenery, the epoch, even the cultures, but this topic will never go out of fashion.
In my opinion, the only one responsible for this tragedy is the own Othello, Iago is the devil himself, with your trickery and lies, manipulates Othelo's behavior, but that despite being the inducer of the evil, it is the fragile and sick character of Othello which causes the tragic outcome. Othello is jealous, not for what he sees; but for what he imagines, and moved by their ghosts, kills the woman that he loves and finishs
The main lesson that we can extract of this work, is that we should not trust anyone, even self-distrust. . . .
Another trusted.
Javier de Felipe.
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