Act 3.1-3.2

Robby Treadwell

8/13/12

Act 3.1-3.2 

Period 4

In these two scenes Cassio tries to impress the general with musicians but he demand it would be stopped, after that Cassio insists to Iago that he gets the woman taking care of the generals wife so he can speak to her. Emilia says that the general still likes him and is trying to find a way to get him back, but Cassio still insists that he talks to Desdemona. "Prithee, keep up thy quillets There’s a poor piece of gold for thee. If the gentlewoman that attends the general’s wife be stirring, tell her there’s one Cassio entreats her a little favour of speech. Wilt thou do this?" In this quote it clearly states the Cassio is set to a mission. Cassio is not there to mess around anymore with the clown he wants to talk to Emilia and make sure things are right with him and Othello. I thought that this short reading had a lot of information in it considered to the length. I thought it was kind of funny that Cassio was trying to suck up to the general so much because of what he did when he was drunk. The funny part to me was when he had all the musicians playing and then the general said he would like to hear them play a song where he cant hear what they are playing. I also thought it was nice that Emilia treating Cassio with such respect. I would have thought she would spoken with a more mad voice because Cassio did mess things up and cause corruption when he was drunk. I started to like Othello more when he said nice things about Cassio, like that he still love him and he wanted to gain enough trust in him to hire him back again. At the end of the reading I was a little bit confused about what Othello said to Iago and the gentlemen about a fortification. How do Desdemona and Othello have such open hearts to try and take back Cassio even though he caused such chaos while Othello and Desdemona were trying to sleep, and while the rest of the society was trying to celebrate?