Othello

Iago gives CAssio some advise about how to regain his position. What is ti?

Act 2 scene 3

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Iago advises Cassio to petition Othello in order to change his mind. He also tells him to use Desdemona's influence to gain her husband's trust again. Iago is a devious little man!

"You have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser. What, man, there are ways to recover the general again. You are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenseless dog to affright an imperious lion. Sue to him again and he’s yours."

"Our general’s wife is now the general. I may say so in this respect, for that he hath devoted and given up himself to the contemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts and graces. Confess yourself freely to her, importune her help to put you in your place again. She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested."

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Othello/ Act II/ Scene III