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Assignment Details
Othello--3.4, 4.1
English Classes
Date
Feb. 24, 2015
Additional Info
1. What do you believe is the most significant event or detail of this section?
2. What purpose do you see in the inclusion of Bianca here?
3. Reread the passage below, and in your own words, explain Iago's plan.
"Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,
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A housewife that by selling her desires
Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature
That dotes on Cassio; as 'tis the strumpet's plague
To beguile many and be beguiled by one:
He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain
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From the excess of laughter. Here he comes:
Re-enter CASSIO.
As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad;
And his unbookish jealousy must construe
Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures and light behavior,
Quite in the wrong."