Othello Relationship Analysis

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Knowing Cassio’s reputation, a player, Iago is able to make the relationship between Cassio and Desdemona seem real. In one of Iago’s monologues, otherwise known as an aside, he provides his opinion of Cassio: “Cassio’s a proper man… That he is too familiar with his wife… to be suspected, framed to make women false… Hell and night/ Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light” (1.3.426-447). This quote proves Iago thinks of cassio as a player by the line, “that he is too familiar with his wife,” insinuating he is sleeping with the Moor’s wife.The following conversation is between Cassio and Iago, discussing Bianca: Cassio’s mistress:
Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,
A huswife that by selling her desire,
Buys herself bread and (clothes). …show more content…

Othello is overhearing this conversation, making the point of Cassio sleeping with Desdemona more believable. Cassio resonance does not mention Bianca, leaving it up to interpretation to Othello of to whom he is speaking of: “She was here even now. She haunts/ Every place. I was the other day talking on the/ Sea-bank with certain Venetians, and thither comes/ The bauble. (By this hand, she falls thus about my/Neck”( 4.1 150-154)! Iago places Othello in a position to listen to his (Iago’s) conversation with Cassio, and although Cassio is speaking of Bianca, Iago has strategically set up this scenario as if it is Desdemona was the topic of interest in the conversation. Iago sets the stage to completely have Othello believing that Desdemona was unfaithful to him. And at this point of the play, Iago builds up the anger behind Othello to use Cassio’s slurs to damage his …show more content…

She admits “Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make,” revealing she would give up the entire world, her soul, just to please her husband. This trait is proven as deadly as Othello’s willingness to believe whatever Iago says because she goes behind Desdemona’s back, completing Iago’s plan

“I am glad I have this napkin. This was her first remembrance from the Moor. My wayward husband hath a hundred times Wooed me to steal it. But she so loves the token (for he conjured her she should ever keep it) That she reserves it evermore about her to kiss and talk to. I’ll have the work ta’en out and give it Iago. What he will do with it Heaven knows, not I. I nothing but to please his fantasy” (3.3.334-343).
The “napkin” she stole away from Othello was “[the] first remembrance from the Moor: a handkerchief he gave her that had passed down throughout his family, promising faithful love. This works in Iago’s favor because by knowing her personality, he knows she would go behind her best friend’s back just to accomplish something he simply asked her to do: IAGO: What will you give me

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