... before then. As a military man, Othello was characteristically very ambitious. He probably did not consider Desdemona an equal, but she represented all the good he could attain or accomplish. Othello told Iago, "My demerits may speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune as this that I have reached." Othello loved Desdemona as an extension of himself, and in his greatest moments of happiness, his ... of this awareness, demonstrated a profound moral disorder.15 "Stars, hide your fires! Let now light see my black and deep desires: the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, ...

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... abroad that twixt my sheets he's done my office" (II.3.347-48). The irony in this quote is when he Brennan Page 2 next says, "I know not if't be true, but I, for mere suspicion in that kind, will do as if for surety" (I.3.349-50).The impression this gave me after reading the entire play, ... Iago great pleasure as he listens to Othello begin to speak like a savage rather than the proud, eloquent, general that he is. He also succeeds in silencing Desdemona as he suggests to Othello how he should kill her. "Do it not with poison; strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated...

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