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Throughout the play, the evil Iago has manipulated Othello into believing that Desdemona has been unfaithful. As a result, Othello has vowed to murder Desdemona, while Iago says that he will kill Cassio. As Othello enters Desdemona’s room, he sees her sleeping, and struggles with what he has vowed to do. When Desdemona wakes, she pleads for her life, but to no avail - and in fact her responses (especially to Cassio’s fate) propel Othello forward into the murder.
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OTHELLO It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,--
Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!--
It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood;
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.
Put out the light, and then put out the light:
If I quench thee, thou
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