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The Fall of Othello The Othello of the Fourth Act is Othello in his fall. His fall is rarely finished, however he is tremendously changed. Towards the end of the Temptation-scene he becomes on occasion generally awful, however his loftiness remains practically undiminished. Indeed, even in the accompanying scene (III iv), where he goes to test Desdemona in the matter of the cloth, and gets a deadly affirmation of her blame, our compassion for him is not really moved by any sentiment of mortification. In any case, in the Fourth Act Disorder has come. A slight interim of time might be conceded here. It is nevertheless slight; for it was important for Iago to rush on, and awfully risky to leave an opportunity for a gathering of Cassio with Othello; and his understanding into Othello's inclination instructed him that his arrangement was to convey blow on blow, and never to permit his casualty to recoup from the disarray of the main stun. Still there is a slight interim; and when Othello returns we see initi ally that he is a changed man. He is genuinely depleted, and his psyche is stunned. He sees everything obscured through a fog of blood and tears. He has really overlooked the episode of the cloth, and must be helped to remember it. At the point when Iago, seeing that he would now be able to chance practically any untruth, reveals to him that Cassio has admitted his blame, Othello, the saint who has appeared to us just second to Coriolanus in physical force, trembles all finished; he murmurs disconnected words; a darkness unexpectedly mediates between his eyes and the world; he takes it for the shivering declaration of nature to the awfulness he has quite recently heard, [Endnote 6] and he falls silly to the ground. At the point when he recoups it is to watch Cassio, as he envisions, snickering over his disgrace. It is a burden so gross, and ought to have been one so unsafe, that Iago could never have wandered it. Be that as it may, he is sheltered at this point. The sight just add s to the disarray of mind the frenzy of anger; and an eager hunger for retribution, fighting with movements of limitless aching and lament, overcomes them. The deferral till dusk is torment to him. His discretion has completely abandoned him, and he strikes his better half within the sight of the Venetian emissary. He is so lost to all feeling of reality that he never asks himself what will follow the passings of Cassio and his better half.