Bianca

A courtesan in love with Cassio.

Thursday 29 March 2012

Let the devil and his dam haunt you!

"Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you
Mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now?
I was a fine fool to take it. I must take out the
Work?--A likely piece of work, that you should find
It in your chamber, and not know who left it there!
This is some minx's token, and I must take out the
Work? There; give it your hobby-horse: wheresoever
You had it, I'll take out no work on't."
Bianca to Cassio
Act 4 i. 125-32

Literary Devices:
Rhetorical Question: Bianca uses questions to emphasize her anger and her point of view on the subject. "This is some minx's token, and I must take out the work?" She thinks it's the handkerchief of someone that he's sleeping with, so she's frustrated that he wants her to copy the pattern.
Pathos (appeal to emotion): this quote shows that Bianca is jealous. She thinks that Cassio, the man she loves, is sleeping with someone else, and is angry at him. It is this jealousy that is the final evidence needed for Othello to think that Cassio is in fact having an affair with his wife Desdemona, and to plan to kill them both.


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