...his crime by killing himself. Act V, Scene 2 (Othello confronts Desdemona in her hedchamher) OTHELLO. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul: Let me...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....

...Cassio's death to lago, but with Desdemona he imposes upon himself the role of judge and executioner: 'It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. | Let...name it to you, you chaste stars. It is the cause' (5. 2. 1-3). So he enters the bedroom where Desdemona sleeps upon their wedding sheets, convinced that...

...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...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 flaming...

...masculine behaviour. Another familiar moment, which shows that Othello saw not what doth move: OTHELLO It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me...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....

...entry is a revelation of how closely lago 's jealous rumors have transformed both him and his bride: It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul! Let me...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....

...thought, and immediately there came to mind the famous and mysterious passage, this time indeed verbatim: "It is the cause, it is the cause my soul, — / Let...you, you chaste stars! — / It is the cause. — Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. ..." Othello says this to himself...

...Surfacing (Toronto, Ont.: General, 1972), 150. 10 The Missed Encounter: Cannibalism and the Literary Critic It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul; Let me...name it to you, you chaste stars, It is the cause. — Othello v:2, 1-3 GEOFFREY SANBORN Eight white men are gathered on a beach; their ship is anchored...

...cause, my soul,' " he recited. " '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...smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.' " 'Put out the light,' " he continued moving toward the bed and Desdemona,...

...you chaste stars! It is the cause [V, ii, 1-3]. Now comes a shrinking back from the deed: Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow And smooth as monumental alabaster [V, ii, 3-5]. Tenderness here quite clearly is that characteristic voluptuousness of Othello's which,...

...Desdemona is killed. Whereas in Cinthio she is clubbed to death, Shakespeare has Othello say, "yet I'll not shed her blood, / Nor scar that whiter skin of...than snow, / And smooth, as monumental alabaster" (5.2.3-5). The cause of this reluctance to scar her - expressed in a far more complex language than...