Desdemona. To whom, my lord? with whom? how am I false?
Cassio. Yet, I beseech you, If you think fit, or that it may be done, Give me advantage of some brief discourse With Desdemona alone.
Desdemona. A guiltless death I die.
Desdemona. Shall I deny you? No: farewell, my Lord.
As the herald of the new civilization, Desdemona allures the conceited hero to take off armour and attend the ablution of the new civilization.
Desdemona and Emilia have both similarities and differences.
Emilia. What handkerchief? Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona; that which so often you did bid me steal.
Desdemona. Well praised! How if she be black and witty?
Desdemona. Then heaven Have mercy on me!
Has had most favourable and happy speed: Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds, The gutter'd rocks and congregated sands— Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel,— As having sense of beauty, do omit Their mortal natures, letting go safely by The divine Desdemona.
Desdemona. Then Lord have mercy on me!
Desdemona. Cousin, there's fall 'n between him and my Lord an unkind breach: but you shall make all well.
They were studying “Othello, ” Shakespeare’s tragedy about jealousy, in which Othello smothers his wife, Desdemona.
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