CASSIO QUOTES Flashcards
Cassio as highly educated?
“a great arithmetician/ a Florentine”- Iago
Cassio using his education to gain a sense of superiority?
“You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar”
Cassio describing Desdemona?
“Hail to thee, lady!” “whom I, with all the office of my heart/ entirely honour” “ the divine Desdemona”
Cassio describing Bianca? analyse
“Poor rouge!” “I marry her! what! A customer!”- duplicite nature, exploited Women for pleasure. Exploites Bianca for sexual pleasure, exploites Desdemona for security against Othello. Lower class women/ prositutes were hidden from the public sphere
How does Cassio respond to Othello when he is drunk? analyse
“I pray you pardon me/ I cannot speak” afraid of Othello. Asks Desdemona to speak for him, punishing her.
Cassio when his role of lieutenant is taken away? analyse
“Reputation, Reputation, Reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!” - fears life outside upper class”I have lost the immortal part of me and what remains is bestial”- prose language (madness) Shakespeare conveys importance of honour and prestige in society. Without reputation, Cassio views himself as a beast, a symbol of poverty
Cassio’s view of drinking?
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!” Christian view of drinking, emphasising how alcohol leads men away from greatness. He passes the blame on alcohol.
Who are florentines?
expected to be intelligent. Florence was a high cultured city, the birth place of the renaissance.
who is a martyr?
someone who is killed for the sake of a greater cause. Biblical tone connoting to Jesus?
who is a fallen women?
popular idea during Jacobean Era, women who have lost their innocence
