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Bianca is a prostitute looking for love, which she foolishly thinks that Cassio can give her. She first appears at the end of the third act, when Cassio is waiting in hopes that Desdemona might be able to bring Othello back with a decision about his job.
We know this because Cassio is dining with Bianca before he is wounded in the final scene. In Act V, Bianca’s genuine love for Cassio is seen when she discovers her lover has been stabbed: ‘Alas, he faints! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!’ (V.1.84). Her constancy in love links Bianca to Desdemona.
Bianca is a Venetian prostitute who is in love with Cassio. However, Cassio does not share the same feelings for Bianca as she does for him. Bianca accuses Cassio of sleeping with another woman...
Bianca's jealousy of Cassio provides a contrast for the jealousy that Othello feels for Desdemona—demonstrating that women are also subject to the jealousy that Emilia, earlier in this scene, attributes only to men.
He, on the one side, tells Othello, as he recovers, that he is going to arrange a meeting with Cassio where he will confess his affair with Desdemona while on the other side he asks Cassio to say something about Bianca.
It is hard not to judge Cassio harshly when he tells Bianca to be gone because he does not want to be found ‘womaned’ (III.4.194). Cassio can be accused of using women in the same way that Iago does. Rather than facing up to Othello he enlists the help of Emilia, then Desdemona to plead his case.
Bianca | Cassio’s relationship with Bianca is built on dishonesty and disrespect. According to Cassio and Iago, Bianca is obsessed with Cassio and fawns on him, though this is likely misogynistic hyperbole. Regardless, there is a power imbalance in their relationship, due partly to class, partly to gender, and partly to unreciprocated feelings.
