Question

When Othello sees Cassio with Desdemona's handkerchief, he does all of the following EXCEPT?

1) Say he will take nine years to kill him
2) Say Desdemona should die that very night
3) Say he will chop Desdemona to pieces
4) None of the above

Answer 1

Othello does not say he will take nine years to kill Cassio after seeing him with Desdemona's handkerchief; this statement is not in Shakespeare's play. Option 1 is correct.

Step-by-step explanation:

In William Shakespeare's Othello, when Othello sees Cassio with Desdemona's handkerchief, a series of misconstrued events and manipulations by Iago provoke him to extreme jealousy and rage.

However, he does not say he will take nine years to kill Cassio. Instead, spurred by his misguided conviction of Desdemona's infidelity, Othello vows to kill her that very night and, in a fit of anger, suggests that he could chop her into pieces, which reflects his intense feelings of betrayal and his dramatic fall from rationality.

So Option 1 is correct.