Sooner or later, Emilia will tell what she knows. For all her words of scorn about husbands, Emilia automatically sides with her husband in what she must know is a scurrilous attack on another woman.
She cries "fie upon thee, strumpet! In Bianca's eyes this is true, as all she is doing is standing by her own man, as Emilia is doing with hers.
At this point, Iago feels a certain satisfaction. Roderigo is dead, his money and jewels now securely in Iago's keeping, and no one else is aware of this. Cassio is badly wounded and believes he has been attacked by a gang of thieves.
This, for Iago, is a less than perfect result, but Cassio might subsequently die of his injuries or be maimed and crippled, in which case his army career is over. But much is still left to be done before Iago can consider himself safe or triumphant.
The night has yet to be accomplished. In Venice, at the start of Othello, the soldier Iago announces his hatred for his commander, Othello, a Moor. Othello has…. In the streets of Venice, Iago tells Roderigo of his hatred for Othello, who has given Cassio the lieutenancy that….
The duke and the senators discuss the movements of the Turkish fleet and conclude that its target is, indeed, Cyprus…. The Turkish fleet is destroyed in a storm, while Cassio and then Desdemona, Emilia, and Iago arrive safely at Cyprus…. Iago gets Cassio drunk, making it easy for Roderigo to provoke Cassio into a brawl, first with Roderigo, then with…. Cassio arrives with musicians to honor Othello and Desdemona. As Iago has recommended, Cassio asks Emilia to arrange a meeting….
Cassio leaves hastily in order to avoid speaking…. They are joined shortly by Montano, Lodovico, Cassio, and Iago, who is being held prisoner. Othello stabs Iago, wounding him, and Lodovico orders some soldiers to disarm Othello. Iago sneers that he bleeds but is not killed. Seeking some kind of final reconciliation, Othello asks Cassio how he came by the handkerchief, and Cassio replies that he found it in his chamber.
Lodovico tells Othello that he must come with them back to Venice, and that he will be stripped of his power and command and put on trial.
He reminds them of a time in Aleppo when he served the Venetian state and slew a malignant Turk. Lodovico prepares to leave for Venice to bear the news from Cyprus to the duke and senate. In the first scene of Act V, we see the utterly futile end of Roderigo and his plans. Roderigo was first persuaded that he need only follow Othello and Desdemona to Cyprus in order to win over Desdemona, then that he need only disgrace Cassio, then that he need only kill Cassio.
Now, Roderigo, stabbed by the man who gave him false hope, dies empty-handed in every possible way. Roderigo is certainly a pathetic character, evidenced by the fact that he does not even succeed in killing Cassio. Because of this, Iago is forced to bloody his own hands, also for the first time in the play. Displaying a talent for improvisation, Iago takes the burden of action into his own hands because he has no other choice.
Neither Lodovico, Graziano, nor Cassio shows the slightest suspicion that Iago is somehow involved in the mayhem. But spotted sheets also suggests wedding-night sex.
As Othello prepares to kill Desdemona at the beginning of the final scene, the idea of killing her becomes curiously intertwined, in his mind, with the idea of taking her virginity. Ironically, despite being convinced of her corruption, part of him seems to view her as still intact, like an alabaster statue or an unplucked rose. Furthermore, the reader may recall that the all-important handkerchief is dyed with the blood of dead virgins.
The wedding sheets would prove one way or another whether the marriage was consummated, depending on whether they were stained with blood. After Desdemona wakes, the scene progresses in a series of wavelike rushes that leave the audience as stunned and disoriented as the characters onstage. Astonishingly, Desdemona finds breath again to speak four final lines after Emilia enters the bedroom.
Othello once again misinterprets what has happened, though, to Iago's benefit. Othello's professed admiration for Iago, coupled with his newly misogynistic and violent plans for Desdemona, contrast poignantly from his declarations of love in 1. Lodovico enters with Graziano Brabantio 's brother. They hear the cries of pain from Cassio and Roderigo , but it's so dark they can't see anything.
Iago enters, carrying a light, and is recognized by Lodovico and Graziano. He finds Cassio, and then Roderigo. He identifies Roderigo as one of the "villains" who attacked Cassio, and stabs and kills Roderigo. Iago here reveals the full extent of his treachery, killing the character with whom he has plotted onstage since 1. Iago, basically, has no honor to lose. As Iago , Lodovico , and Graziano tend to Cassio 's wounds, Bianca enters and cries out when she sees Cassio's injuries.
Iago, meanwhile, makes a show of recognizing Cassio's attacker as Roderigo of Venice, and also implicates Bianca as being in on the plot to kill Cassio by getting her to admit that Cassio had dined with her that night. Although the other characters dismiss Bianca as a promiscuous woman, she shows real affection for Cassio. Iago, however, uses misogynistic stereotypes to implicate the innocent Bianca, and further put himself in the clear.
Cassio is carried offstage and Emilia enters. When Iago explains what has happened, Emilia curses Bianca.
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