Act 3 Flashcards

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What does Act 3 show?

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how deception and duplicity dominate, whilst the destructive power of jealousy becomes clear

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act 3, scene 1
The one with the musciains

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  • Cassio sends musicians to play music beneath the general’s window
  • Othello sends his servant to tell the musicians to go away
  • Iago enters and tells Cassio that he will send for Emilia straightaway and figure out a way to take Othello aside
  • Emilia enters and says that Othello and Desdemona have been discussing his case
  • Emilia allows Cassio to come in and tells him to wait for Desdemona.
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act 3, scene 2
The one thats irrelevant

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  • Iago, Othello, and a gentleman walk together at the citadel
  • Othello gives Iago some letters to deliver and decides to take a look at the town’s fortification
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act 3, scene 3

the one with the gay vow

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  • Desdemona, Cassio and Emilia enter mid-conversation
  • Desdemona has just vowed to do everything she can on Cassio’s behalf
  • when Othello and Iago enter, Cassio quickly departs
  • Othello asks whether it was Cassio he saw leaving
  • Iago responds that surely Cassio would not behave like a guilty man
  • Desdemona entreats Othello to forgive Cassio
  • Othello assures her that he will speak to him soon
  • alone with Othello, Iago begins his insinuations of an affair between Cassio and Desdemona, he suggests that Othello should observe his wife
  • Desdemona and Emilia enter to inform Othello that he is expected at dinner
  • Othello complains of a pain in his forehead, and Desdemona offers to bind his head with her handkerchief
  • Othello pushes her handkerchief away and it drops to the floor
  • Emilia, staying behind, picks up the handkerchief, remarking that her husband has asked her to steal it at least a hundred times.
  • Iago enters, and he is ecstatic when she gives it to him
  • Iago gleefully plots to plant the handkerchief in Cassio’s room
  • Othello enters and declares that his soul is in torment, he demands that Iago bring him ‘ocular proof’
  • he tells Othello that Cassio called out Desdemona’s name in his sleep
  • This story enrages Othello
  • Iago claims to have witnessed Cassio with the handkerchief
  • Furious, Othello cries out, he kneels and vows that he will take his revenge
  • Iagi kneels with him, vowing to help execute his master’s vengeance
  • Othello promotes Iago to lieutenant.
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