... 'prove my love a whore' emphasises how his loss of trust in Desdemona is accompanied by his increasing misplaced trust in Iago, who employs Othello's handkerchief as the 'ocular proof' of her infidelity. The irony in 'Heaven doth truly know you are false as hell' conveys how Desdemona's 'heavenly true' innocence ultimately suffers under Othello's misplaced trust in ... ...

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