Premium Content A Sacrificial Death
By Rumit Pancholi - October 03, 2004
"I must weep, / But they are cruel tears," says Othello near the end of his soliloquy in Act Five, Scene Two, right before killing Desdemona. Traditional Shakespearean murderers do not shed tears prior to killing their victim; in Shakespeare's Othello, however, the Moor is an ambivalent man justifying his actions through a cathartic release of…
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