Thursday, January 8, 2009

Othello Act 3 scene 4

Fetch me the handkerchief! My mind misgives. (3.4 78)

This quote shows how Othello's romantic insecurity has led him to have a single track mind. At this point in the novel Othello is irate with his wife because she had potentially been dishonest. Othello's incessant demands to see the handkerchief shows that he is so furious and convinced that he wants Desdemona to be guilty in order to justify his plan for condemning her and Cassio.


indicted (3.4 79)- to accuse of wrong doing

perdition (3.4 77)- a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation

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