![]() When he leaves, Iago tells the audience that his plan is to get him so drunk that ‘ He’ll be as full of quarrel and offence as my young mistress’ dog.” He wants Cassio to get involved in a fight that will offend the people of Cyprus and result in him losing his job as lieutenant. Cassio defends Desdemona’s honour but succumbs to the pressure of drinking. ![]() Iago meets Cassio and tells him to have a drink but Cassio says that he has “ poor and unhappy brains for drinking.” He also tries to convince him that Desdemona is promiscuous and open to cheating on Othello. He says that Othello will, ‘ thank me, love me and reward me,” even though Iago is against him.Ī herald announces that there will be a party for the people of Cyprus that night to celebrate the destruction of the Turkish fleet and the marriage of Desdemona and Othello. He tells the audience that he is using Roderigo to carry out his plan, which is to have power over Cassio and then he will say negative things about him to Othello. “ Till I am evened with him, wife for wife.” He says that if he can’t do that he’ll make Othello so jealous that he can’t think straight. This shows how he views women as objects or possessions. Iago tells us that he really believes that Cassio is in love with Desdemona before admitting that he is also in love with her simply because he believes that Othello slept with his wife. Iago gives another soliloquy and announces his plans to bring down Cassio and Othello. Iago wants Cassio to react “ and haply may strike at you.” He wants Cassio to lose his job as lieutenant. Iago tells Roderigo to go to the harbour that night where Cassio is on duty and to insult him by questioning his military skills. This shocks Roderigo but Iago says that it is only natural for Desdemona to be fed up looking at Othello.“ Her eye must be fed and what delight shall she have to look on the devil.” Iago tells Roderigo to meet him at the harbour later that night and that Desdemona is in love with Cassio. “ If it were now to die, ‘twere now to be most happy for I fear my soul hath her content so absolute that not another comfort like to this succeeds in unknown fate.” Othello shows his unrealistic view of love and marriage when he says, “ I hope these kisses I’m about to give you are the closest we ever come to fighting.”Iago gives the audience another aside when he says he’s determined to ruin Othello’s happiness. Othello arrives in Cyprus and he says that being reunited with Desdemona is the happiest he’s ever been and likely to ever be. He is hoping that these flirtations will lead to Cassio losing his job, which he wants to take from him. ![]() Cassio takes her hand, which was a symbol of respect and manners but Iago says that this is a web which will ‘’ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.” In an aside, he tells the audience that he will use Cassio’s good manners against him. Iago is delighted to see Cassio and Desdemona talking. ![]() Iago criticises women in this scene to both Desdemona and his Emilia and gives us an insight into his views and how he thinks that women use their sexuality to get what they want. One of the gentlemen tells the others that Michael Cassio has arrived in Cyprus but that Othello is still at sea as they were separated. The act begins with news of a huge storm that has destroyed the Turkish fleet and that the war is already over. ![]()
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