This seems to make Cassio uncomfortable, and he answers, "An inviting eye and yet methinks right modest"(2.3.24-25). Iago answers, "What an eye she has! methinks it sounds a parley to provocation" (2.3.21-22). He says, "Indeed, she's a most fresh and delicate creature" (2.3.20) Cassio is agreeing that she's attractive, but he refrains from drawing any conclusions about her sexual inclinations. Cassio goes along with Iago to certain extent. "I'll warrant her" means "I'll guarantee that she is," and to be "full of game," is to be sexually playful.
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He says, "And, I'll warrant her, full of game" (2.3.19). Iago pushes on, promoting the common male idea that a good-looking woman is naturally hot. Cassio replies that "She's a most exquisite lady" (2.3.18). He says that "she is sport for Jove" (2.3.17). Then, apparently trying to confirm his suspicions about Cassio and Desdemona, Iago makes comments about how sexy Desdemona is. Nevertheless, Iago persuades Roderigo to go along with his scheme to get Cassio fired from his position.Īlone with Cassio the first night in Cyprus, Iago says that Othello left early because "he hath not yet made wanton the night" (2.3.16) with Desdemona.
Roderigo seems shocked, and says, "I cannot believe that in her she's full of most blessed condition" (2.1.249-250). Later in the scene Iago tells Roderigo that Desdemona is already in love with Cassio. Later he holds her hand and kisses his fingers to her, all of which convinces Iago that Cassio will be a useful pawn in his plot against Othello. He says "O, behold, / The riches of the ship is come on shore!" (2.1.82-83), and demands that the men of Cyprus kneel as he greets her, saying "Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, / Before, behind thee, and on every hand, / Enwheel thee round!" (2.1.85-87). Then when Desdemona arrives, gallant Cassio is extra gallant. By saying that Desdemona "paragons description and wild fame," Cassio means that she is more beautiful than any possible description of her beauty, more beautiful than the wildest story of any woman's beauty. Cassio answers that he is, that "he hath achieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame" (2.1.61-62). In Cyprus Montano asks Cassio if Othello is married. When Brabantio arrives to confront Othello, he says that it's impossible that "a maid so tender, fair and happy" (1.2.66) could ever love a scary black man like Othello. It's possible that Iago considers Desdemona a "prize" just because she's beautiful. At first glance it may seem that Iago is saying that Othello married Desdemona for her father's money, but that possibility is never mentioned again, not even by evil Iago. Othello values his freedom highly, but Desdemona more highly.Ī little later, when Cassio asks Iago what Othello is doing at the inn, Iago says, "'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack: / If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever." (1.2.50-51). "Gentle" means kind, refined, and of a good family.
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When Iago tells Othello that Brabantio will try to annul Desdemona's marriage, Othello says, "But that I love the gentle Desdemona, / I would not my unhoused free condition / Put into circumscription and confine / For the sea's worth" (1.2.25-28). Iago portrays Desdemona as a "white ewe" in order to make Brabantio angry enough to punish Othello. Christianity has made the white sheep a powerful symbol of innocence and purity. From the street in front of Brabantio's house Iago shouts out, "Even now, now, very now, an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe" (1.1.88-89).
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