Jul 31, 2015 · In Othello, William Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death.

Othello goes to Desdemona, convinced she must die. He tells her to pray to God and confess her sins before he kills her. Explore Desdemona's death in Othello with annotated text, galleries and videos of the scene.

A bedchamber in the castle: DESDEMONA in bed asleep. Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!-- It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. That can thy light relume. When I have pluck'd the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again.

Circumstances are the key cause of Desdemona’s murder. Othello had spent half of his life in military expeditions and had no space for woman and love in his life. “And have not those soft parts of the conversation, that chamberers have; or for I am declined” (Act-3, scene-3).

Tragically, Desdemona is apparently aware of her imminent death. She, not Othello, asks Emilia to put her wedding sheets on the bed, and she asks Emilia to bury her in these sheets should she die first.

[He kisses DESDEMONA] One more, and that's the last. There was never anything so sweet and yet so deadly as you. I can't help but weep, but that is not a sign of pity. This sorrow is like that of God, who must strike down the creatures he loves. She's waking up.

Desdemona (/ ˌ d ɛ z d ə ˈ m oʊ n ə /) is a character in William Shakespeare's play Othello (c. 1601–1604). Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish Venetian military prodigy.

What did Othello do to hasten Desdemona's death, and how could she have briefly revived from whatever he did? It doesn't seem that Othello could have dispatched her by continuing to smother her, since that wouldn't have speeded things up.

Desdemona says that she is innocent, denies that anyone has killed her, and dies. Emilia and Othello confront each other. Emilia sees herself as a witness and will tell what she has seen, and Othello declares that he has killed Desdemona because of her infidelity.

Othello is shocked to learn from Emilia that Cassio killed Roderigo but is himself still alive. Then, suddenly, Desdemona calls out that she has been murdered. The slow pace of Desdemona's death stretches out its brutality and the terrible consequences of Othello's delusion.