Othello - Act 3 Scene 4
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- Othello - Act 3 Scene 4
- Summary
- Desdemona sends for Cassio to tell him that she has spoken with Othello; Othello claims a headache and asks for a handkerchief, but he will have only the embroidered strawberry handkerchief. Desdemona tries to deflect his questions about the handkerchief, speaking again of Cassio. Othello walks out in fury.
- Cassio gives Bianca Desdemona's handkerchief, and asks her to make a copy of it, as he will have to return the original when he finds the owner. Bianca immediately recognizes it as belonging to a woman and berates Cassio for having another mistress.
- Characters
- Desdemona
- Emilia
- Othello
- Iago
- Cassio
- Bianca
- Themes
- Jealousy
- This hand is moist...hot hot and moist
- Tis a monster begot upon itself born on itself
- Gender
- They are all but stomachs, and we all but food...
- Go to woman!
- Jealousy
- Context
- Racism
- I think the sun where he was born drew all humours from him.
- Relationships
- But our new heraldry is hands not hearts
- Hold her loathed and his spirts should hunt after new fancies
- My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him
- This is some token from a newer friend
- Racism
- Summary
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