Today’s Totally Random
Lines
Who’s there? Othello?
Ay, Desdemona.
Desdemona
Othello
Othello
Act V, Scene
ii, Line 24
This is the last scene of the play, and Othello being a tragedy, you know what that means. Yup, lots of dying about to happen.
Othello spends the first twenty-three lines of this scene talking to himself and the sleeping Desdemona about how and why he must kill his wife, before she wakes and utters the first part of Today’s Totally Random Line. He goes on talking to her and, after chatting for a bit, that’s exactly what he does: he smothers her with her pillow.
Again, tragedy.
Mojo listened to this last act of Othello with me (I have the Arkangel CD of Othello stored on my pc), and now the little guy is practically in tears. He was especially touched when Desdemona's maid Emelia started singing 'Willow, willow, willow' over her lady's dead body.
He's such a sensitive little fellow.
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