CASSIO Flashcards
Iago’s descriptions of Cassio
‘Michael Cassio, a Florentine - A fellow almost damned in a fair wife’
‘Mere prattle without practice/ Is all his soldiership’
Cassio’s respect for Othello
‘prays the Moor be safe’
‘Whom I, with all the office of my heart,/ Entirely honour.’
After his death:
‘he was great of heart’
Descriptions of Desdemona
Othello is ‘wived’ ‘most fortunately. He hath achieved a maid/ That paragons description and wild fame’
‘Our great captains captain’
‘She’s a most exquisite lady’
‘She’s a most fresh and delicate creature’
‘She is indeed perfection’
‘an inviting eye, and yet methinks right modest’
His courtesy
‘Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,/ That I extend my manners. ‘Tis my breeding/ That gives me this bold show of courtesy.’ [Kisses Emilia]
Cassio’s response to Iago’s misogyny
‘you may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar’’
Cassio’s weakness of drinking
‘I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.’
Cassio’s drunken behaviour
‘I hope to be saved’…‘the lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient.’
‘A knave teach me my duty? I’ll beat the knave into a twigged bottle’
‘I’ll knock you o’er the mazzard’
Cassio’s concern for reputation
‘Reputation, reputation, reputation! O I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation Iago, my reputation!’
Cassio’s castigation of alcohol
‘O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil’
‘Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredience is a devil’
Interaction with Desdemona
‘Whatever Shall become of Michael Cassio,/ He’s never anything but your true servant.’
‘I do beseech you/ That by your virtuous means I may again/ Exist, and be a member of his love/ Whom I, with all the office of my heart,/ Entirely honour.’
Cassio’s shame
‘I am very ill at ease,/ Unfit for mine own purposes’
Cassio’s interaction with Bianca
‘Sweet Bianca [gives her Desdemona’s handkerchief] Take me this work out.’
‘Go to, woman/ Throw your vile guesses in the devils teeth, From whence you have them’
‘Take it and do’t, and leave me for this time’
‘I think it no addition, nor my wish,/ To have him see me womaned.’
Cassio’s misogynistic, disrespectful attitude towards Bianca
‘poor caitiff!’ ‘poor rogue! I think i’faith she loves me’
‘I marry her? What? A customer! prithee bear some charity to my wit; do not think it so unwholesome. Ha, ha, ha!’
‘This is the monkey’s own giving out’
‘She haunts me in every place’
‘bauble’
Cassio is injured
‘O I am spoiled, undone by villains. Give me some help! (to Iago)
‘My leg is cut in two’
Cassio is rewarded at the end of the play
‘Cassio rules in Cyprus’
‘To you, Lord Governor, Remains the censure of this hellish villain.’
