... rage. At the climax of his rage, Othello loses his virtue of reason and falls into a trance in Act IV, scene i. No longer is he able to speak with reverent diction, and his sentences become detached. By the time he refers to Desdemona as the "devil- (IV,i) and then hits her, the respect held for him by the audience and other ... ...

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