Othello: Act Five

Othello: Act Five

1. Scene 1

   • RODERIGO attacks CASSIO, who ends up wounding him. IAGO wounds CASSIO from behind and runs away. OTHELLO thinks CASSIO is dead and goes a kills DESDEMONA
     • RODERIGO: "Forth, my sword: he dies"
     • IAGO: "Now, whether he kill Cassio, or Cassio him, or each do kill the other, every way makes my gain."
     • RODERIGO: "O, I am slain" [Iago from behind strikes at Cassio's legs and hurries off] CASSIO: "I am maimed for ever. Help, ho! Murder! Murder!
     • OTHELLO: "Thy bed lust-stained shall with lust's blood be spotted."
   • LODOVICO and GRATIANO hear CASSIO'S cry for help, but are affaid of what will happen to them as its dark.
     • LODOVICO: "Two or three groan. It is a heavy night..let's think't unsafe..."
     • RODERIGO: " Nobody come? then shall I bleed to death."
   • IAGO appears as if he just came out of bed and goes to CASSIO. RODERIGO calls out for help and IAGO kills him.
     • IAGO: "Who's there? Whose noise is this that cries on murder."
     • CASSIO: "I am spoiled, undone by villain! Give me some help."
     • IAGO: "O murderuous slave! O villain! [stabs Roderigo] RODERIGO: "O damned iago! O inhuman dog!"
     • IAGO: "Kill men i'th'dark! Where be these bloody thieves?"
   • BIANCA enters and IAGO blames everything on her. EMILIA enters and leans CASSIO is wounded and RODERIGO is dead. IAGO tells EMILIA to deliver the news to OTHELLO and DESDEMONA
     • "IAGO: [to Bianca] "What, look you pale? O, bear him out o'th'air....Behold her well; I pray you, look upon her..."
     • IAGO: "Emilia, run you to the citadel, and tell my lord and lady what hath happened

2. Scene 2

   • OTHELLO struggles to talk himself into killing DESDEMONA. She wakes and defends herself against what hes believes. He then smouthers her to dea,th, just before EMILIA enters to tell him the news about RODERICO and CASSIO
     • OTHELLO: "Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!...Yet I'll not shed her blood, nor care that white skin of hers then snow and smooth as monumental alabaster."
       • OTHELLO: "Put out the lgiht, and then put out thy light"
     • DESDEMONA: "Then heaven have mercy on me!"
       • DESDEMONA: "They are loves I bear to you
     • OTEHLLO: "'Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio's death."
       • EMILIA: "Cassio, my lord, hath killed a young Venetian called Roderigo."
   • DESDEMONA cries out that she has been murdered, clears OTHELLO of guilt and dies. OTHELLO admits he killed her because she wa a 'whore' and IAGO said so. EMILIA cries murder and calls for help.
     • DESDEMONA: "A guitless death I die."
       • DESDEMONA: "Nobody: I myself."
         • OTHELLO: "She's like a liar gone to burning hell. 'Twas I that killed her."
     • OTHELLO: "Thy husband [Iago] knew it all."
       • EMILIA: "Help! The Moor hath killed my mistress! Murder!
   • MONTANO, GRATIANO IAGO and others answer EMILIAS cry. EMILIA declares IAGO spread rumors but IAGO tells her to shut up. EMILIA calls IAGO a villian who drove OTHELLO to kill DESDEMONA
     • EMILIA: "You told a lie, an odious, damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie!
     • IAGO: "What, are you mad" I charge you, get you home."
     • IAGO: "Be wise, and get you home. EMILIA: "I will not" [Iago offers to stab her] GRATIANO: "You sword upon a woman."
   • OTHELLO tells everyone he saw CASSIO with his HANDKERCHIEF, but EMILIA says she found it and gave it to IAGO. OTHELLO then attacks IAGO. IAGO gives EMILIA her death wound and runs away.
     • EMILIA: "Thou dull Moor! That handkerchief thou speak'st of I found by fourtune, and did give my husband...He begged me to steal it.
     • [Othello runs at Iago, but Montano disarms him; in the confusing, Iago stabs Emilia from behind and escapes]
   • The men disarm OTHELLO snd leave GRATIANO to guard him while they find IAGO. EMILIA bids farewell to DESDEMONA, telling OTHELLO she was loyal, and then dies.
     • MONTANO: "Come, guard the door without; let him not pass, but kill him rather. I'll after that same villain, for 'tis a damned slave."
     • EMILIA: "What did thy songs bode, lady?...I will play the sawn, and die in music."
       • EMILIA: [singing] "Moor, she was chaste; she loved thee, cruel Moor; so come my soul to bliss, as I speak true..."
   • OTHELLO can't deal with seeing dead DESDEMONA and finds a sword but can't use it due to grief. LODOVICO enters with the others . LODOVICO questions OTHELLO, gives more proof of IAGOS lies.
     • OTHELLO: "Behold I have this weapon....Who can control his fate?"
       • OTHELLO: "...And he retires. Where should Othello go?"
     • OTHELLO: "An honourable murederer, if you will; for nought did I in hate, if you will
     • OTHELLO: "How come you, Cassio, by that hankerchief that was my wife's?" CASSiO: "I found it in my chamber: And he [Iago] himself confessed but even now that there he dropped it for a special purpose."
   • As OTHELLO is about to be led away, he asks to say "a word or two". Speaks of how he wants to be remembered, then stabs himself, kisses DESDEMONA and dies next to her.
     • OTHELLO: "Of one that loved not wisely but too well; of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, perplexed in the extreme."
       • OTEHLLO: "I kiss thee ere I killed thee: no way but this, killing mysef, to die upon a kiss."