I think that many of us want to think that Cassio is some innocent pawn in Iago's game, but then we would be lying to ourselves. Come on Cassio, get some brains. You are next in command under Othello! Nepotism may have gotten you the position, but now you need reach out of this "too good for everybody else" milieu that you live in. Hold your liquor, or don't drink at all. You can't get by on looks all the time (which may not be working for you based on what I saw in the movie version). Your jejune behavior only further infuriates me; just because you are rich and "pretty" doesn't mean you can prance around the town drunk. You are so bereft of physical duties that now you think you can just get by on life with your charm. Try being a little less careless and little more fastidious. Look what has happened! At least try to recoup before you humiliate yourself! You made a drunken fool of yourself and now you lost your job... Even though you do have connections with important people you are only a sinecure; you do nothing and make money. It's wrong. Although Iago's rage is intense, your attitude and status is unwarranted and I don't think that you should even be the leader of the Venetian army in Othello's place. It may be expedient for you to lay around and do nothing, but you are going to have to step up to the plate. Right now you don't have the power to subjugate a mere dog into doing what you want it to do, let alone an entire army of men. Watching you reconnoiter would be an embarrassment to the ferocity of the Venetian army and I cannot stand for your power any longer. If I could I would banish you myself. Good riddance.
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