A housewife that by selling her desires
Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature
That dotes on Cassio; as ’tis the strumpet’s plague
To beguile many and be beguiled by one.
– William Shakespeare
Othello, Act 4, Scene 1. Iago’s scathing description of Bianca and her life as a housewife selling her body for food and clothing shows his misogynistic view of women. In love with Cassio, Iago mockingly says it is the curse of whores like Bianca to "beguile many and be beguiled by one." The irony is that Iago is a beguiler of many whose ability to deceive and manipulate comes as second nature to him.