Explore Shakespeare’s presentation of the character Cassio in Othello
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Introduction
Paragraph Focus
Para 1 = Relationships with women
Para 2 = Foil to Othello and Iago
Para 3 = Atypical to Traditional Masculinity
Para 1 = Relationships with women - Cassio
Thesis
AO5 = ‘Cassio’s personal qualities become most evident when he is interacting with others’ - McEachern
AO1 = ‘tis my breeding which gives me this bold show of courtesy’
AO2 = Cassio uses his breeding as an excuse as to why he is naturally courteous and respectable to others, especially women
AO3 = Cassio is of a higher social status so was likely raised in a respectable and courteous way, something that many upper class Elizabethan audiences would have resonated with - a society who saw upper class people as naturally civilised and gracious
Para 1 = Relationships with women - Desdemona
AO1 = ‘she is the most equiste lady’, ‘hail to thee lady’