Othello - Act 4 Scene 3
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- Created on: 11-04-23 17:01
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- Act 4 - Scene 3
- Themes
- My mother had a maid call Barbary
- But to go hang my head all at one side,And sing it like poor Barbara.
- But I do think it is their husbands' faultsIf wives do fall:
- Characters
- Emilia
- Desdemona
- Othello
- Context
- If I do die before thee prithee shroud me in one of those same sheets
- Sing willow...
- Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.
- Summary
- After the supper, Othello orders Desdemona to go to bed and to dismiss her attendant. Desdemona and Emilia discuss the situation; Emilia sees the marriage with Othello as a mistake, but Desdemona regrets nothing.
- She has a premonition of death and requests Emilia, if she should die, to wrap her body in one of her wedding sheets, which are now on the bed.
- Desdemona sings the "Willow Song," remembering the maid Barbary whose lover went mad and abandoned her, and she died singing this song.
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