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Plot Summary of OthelloAct 1The play opens in Venice, Italy, at night. Iago, General Othello's ensign, and Roderigo, who is in love with Desdemona, are on the street outside of the home of Brabantio, Desdemona's father. Iago tells Roderigo of his hatred for Othello, primarily because Othello has promoted Michael Cassio ahead of Iago. They call out to Brabantio, telling him in crude language that his daughter is having a sexual encounter with Othello. Brabantio, enraged, goes with his servants to find the couple. Meanwhile, Iago goes to Othello to warn him of Brabantio's anger.In the next scene, the duke and the senators discuss the Turkish threat on Cyprus. Brabantio, Othello, Cassio, and Roderigo, all enter and Brabantio levels his charges against Othello. Othello replies that he has not stolen Desdemona but has rather legally married her, although without her father's consent. Desdemona is sent for, and when she arrives, she concurs with Othello's summary of their relationship. The duke recognizes their marriage and tells Othello that he must go to Cyprus to defend against the Turks. Othello asks that his wife accompany him, and Desdemona says that she wants to go with him as well.The act closes with an exchange between Iago and Roderigo. Iago says that Othello will soon change his mind and that Iago will help Roderigo win Desdemona. After Roderigo's exit, Iago reveals to the audience how much he hates Othello and Cassio and that he plans to ruin both of them.Act 2Act 2 opens in Cyprus in a storm. The Turks have lost their entire fleet in the tempest. Ultimately, all the characters arrive in Cyprus, and Othello and Desdemona are lovingly reunited. Iago hatches his plot with Roderigo and instructs Roderigo to make Cassio angry this evening after Iago makes Cassio drunk.In the next scene, Othello leaves to celebrate his nuptials with Desdemona. After Othello's departure, Iago manages to get Cassio to drink more than he should. As a consequence, when angered by Roderigo, Cassio gets into a fight with him and ends up seriously injuring the Cypriot governor Montano. Othello is called from his chambers to resolve the crisis. Othello is very angry and dismisses Cassio as an officer.Cassio is distraught and bares his soul to Iago, whom he thinks is his friend. Iago sets his second scheme in motion by instructing Cassio to try to get back into Othello's favor through Desdemona.Act 3As this act opens, Emilia speaks to Cassio and tells him she will work on his behalf with Desdemona. Then, Cassio speaks to Desdemona himself. Cassio leaves quickly when he sees Othello and Iago approaching. Iago makes an oblique comment about how he does not like seeing Cassio speaking with Desdemona. This begins to work on Othello and marks the beginning of his deterioration through jealousy. Desdemona and Othello make up, and Othello repeats his great love for her. However, Desdemona, through her unwitting support of Cassio to Othello, contributes to his growing jealousy. After Desdemona and Emilia exit, Iago goes to work on Othello again, suggesting that Cassio and Desdemona have betrayed Othello. He reminds Othello that Desdemona deceived her father when she married him, suggesting that Desdemona is not what she seems to be.When Iago exits, Othello in a soliloquy contemplates what he will do if he finds that Desdemona has betrayed him, yet when Desdemona and Emilia come on stage, he says that he will not believe she is untrue. They exit together, but Desdemona drops her handkerchief accidentally.Emilia picks up the handkerchief, saying that her husband has asked her to take it for him. She gives it to Iago then leaves the stage. Iago then says that he will leave the handkerchief in Cassio's lodgings to be used as evidence against him. Othello returns, and Iago works on him further, finally convincing him that Desdemona has been unfaithful. He tells Othello that he has seen her handkerchief in Cassio's possession. Othello vows to have Desdemona put to death.When Desdemona enters, Othello asks her for the handkerchief. Desdemona is unable to produce it, and Othello takes this as evidence of her betrayal. Othello exits, angry.Act 4In Act 4, Iago continues to torment Othello with innuendo and suggestions of Desdemona's dishonesty. Othello has a fit of epilepsy. When he recovers he sees Cassio and Iago speaking about Bianca, who arrives with the handkerchief that Cassio has given her. Othello recognizes it as Desdemona's handkerchief and thus resolves to kill both Cassio and Desdemona.Emissaries from Venice arrive and observe Othello's cruelty to Desdemona. They question Iago about Othello's sanity, and Iago implies that Othello is if not mad, certainly dangerous.In the next scene, Othello interrogates Emilia concerning Desdemona's fidelity. He is clearly growing more distraught by the moment. Desdemona describes the drastic change in her husband to Iago and Emilia. After the women exit, Roderigo enters and accuses Iago of playing false with him. Iago makes up a story that convinces Roderigo that he should kill Cassio.Act 4 closes with Desdemona in her bedchamber, having been sent there with Emilia by Othello. There is a grim sense of foreboding over the scene.Act 5As the act opens, Roderigo seriously wounds Cassio. Iago appears to save Cassio and implicates Roderigo to Ludovico, and Roderigo is killed. In the next scene, Othello is in the bedroom with Desdemona as he prepares to kill her. Desdemona protests her innocence, but Othello does not believe her. He kills her by smothering her with a pillow. Emilia comes to the room; Desdemona revives for just a moment to tell Emilia that she has killed herself and then she dies. Othello tells Emilia that he has killed her and says that Desdemona was false. Emilia contradicts him and offers proof that it was Iago who plotted against the pair. Iago threatens Emilia with his sword as she testifies against him, but he is stopped by Desdemona's uncle, Gratiano, and placed under arrest. Othello finally understands that he has killed the innocent Desdemona and asks why Iago has treated him thus. Iago refuses to respond. Othello begs for Cassio's forgiveness. Ludovico produces a letter from Roderigo that reveals the whole plan. There being no recourse, Othello kills himself with his own knife.

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我刚演完这部剧，希望对你有帮助，欢迎交流OthelloAct 3, Scene 3; Act 5, Scene 2IAGO I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,And let him find it. Trifles light as airAre to the jealous confirmations strongAs proofs of holy writ: this may do something.The Moor already changes with my poison:Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,But with a little act upon the blood.Burn like the mines of Sulphur. I did say so:Look, where he comes!Enter OTHELLOOTHELLO Ha! ha! false to me?IAGO Why, how now, general! no more of that.OTHELLO Avaunt! be gone! thou hast set me on the rack:I swear 'tis better to be much abusedThan but to know't a little.IAGO How now, my lord!OTHELLO What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?I saw't not, thought it not, it harm'd not me:I slept the next night well, was free and merry;I found not Cassio’s kisses on her lips.IAGO I am sorry to hear this.OTHELLO I had been happy, if the general camp,Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body,So I had nothing known. O, now, for everFarewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,The royal banner, and all quality,Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!IAGO Is't possible, my lord?OTHELLO Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,Be sure of it; Make me to see't; or woe upon thy life!IAGO O grace! O heaven forgive me!Are you a man? have you a soul or sense?God be wi' you; take mine office. O wretched fool.O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,To be direct and honest is not safe.I thank you for this profit; and from henceI'll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence.OTHELLO Nay, stay: thou shouldst be honest.IAGO I should be wise, for honesty's a foolAnd loses that it works for.OTHELLO By the world,I think my wife be honest and think she is not;I think that thou art just and think thou art not.I'll have some proof. Her name, that was as fresh as Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black as mine own face.If there be cords, or knives, poison, or fire, or suffocating streams, I’ll not endure it.Would I were satisfied!IAGO I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion:I do repent me that I put it to you.You would be satisfied?OTHELLO Would! Nay, I will.IAGO And may: but, how? how satisfied, my lord?Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on--Behold her topp'd?OTHELLO Death and damnation! O!IAGO It were a tedious difficulty, I think,To bring them to that prospect: damn them then,What then? how then?What shall I say? Where's satisfaction?It is impossible you should see this,Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,As salt as wolves, and fools as grossAs ignorance made drunk. But yet, I say,If imputation and strong circumstances,Which lead directly to the door of truth,Will give you satisfaction, you may have't.OTHELLO Give me a living reason she's disloyal.IAGO I do not like the office:But, sith I am enter'd in this cause so far,I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately;And, being troubled with a raging tooth,I could not sleep.In sleep I heard him say 'Sweet Desdemona,Let us be wary, let us hide our loves;'And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand,Cry 'O sweet creature!' and then kiss me hard,then laid his legOver my thigh, and sigh'd, and kiss'd; and thenCried 'Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor!'OTHELLO O monstrous! monstrous!IAGO Nay, this was but his dream.OTHELLO But this denoted a foregone conclusionIAGO And this may help to thicken other proofsThat do demonstrate thinly.OTHELLO I'll tear her all to pieces.IAGO Nay, but be wise: yet we see nothing done;She may be honest yet. Tell me but this,Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchiefSpotted with strawberries in your wife's hand?OTHELLO I gave her such a one; 'twas my first gift.IAGO I know not that; but such a handkerchief--I am sure it was your wife's--did I to-daySee Cassio wipe his beard with.OTHELLO If it be that--IAGO If it be that, or any that was hers,It speaks against her with the other proofs.OTHELLO O， that the slave had forty thousand lives！One is too poor， too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here， Iago； All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven. 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow hell!Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throneTo tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,For 'tis of aspics' tongues!IAGO Yet be content.OTHELLO O, blood, blood, blood!IAGO Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change.OTHELLO Never, Iago.Like to the Pontic sea， Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb， but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont， Even so my bloody thoughts， with violent pace， Shall ne'er look back， ne'er ebb to humble love， Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven,KneelsIn the due reverence of a sacred vowI here engage my words.IAGO Do not rise yet.KneelsWitness, you ever-burning lights above,You elements that clip us round about,Witness that here Iago doth give upThe execution of his wit, hands, heart,To wrong'd Othello's service! Let him command,And to obey shall be in me remorse,What bloody business ever.They riseOTHELLO I greet thy love,Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,And will upon the instant put thee to't:Within these three days let me hear thee sayThat Cassio's not alive.IAGO My friend is dead; 'tis done at your request:But let her live.OTHELLO Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her! Damn her!Come, go with me apart; I will withdraw,To furnish me with some swift means of deathFor the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.IAGO I am your own for ever.Exeunt***DESDEMONA The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,Sing all a green willow:Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,Sing willow, willow, willow:The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans;Sing willow, willow, willow;Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones;Sing willow, willow, willow;Sing all a green willow must be my garland.Let nobody blame him; his scorn I approve,-Nay, that's not next.--Hark! who is't that knocks?It's the wind.I call'd my love false love; but whatsaid he then?Sing willow, willow, willow:If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men!Ate eyes do itch;Doth that bode weeping?SleepsEnter OTHELLODESDEMONA Who's there? Othello?OTHELLO Ay. Desdemona.DESDEMONA Will you come to bed, my lord?OTHELLO Have you pray'd to-night, Desdemona?DESDEMONA Ay, my lord.OTHELLO If you bethink yourself of any crimeUnreconciled as yet to heaven and grace,Solicit for it straight.DESDEMONA Alas, my lord, what do you mean by that?OTHELLO Well, do it, and be brief; I will walk by:I would not kill thy unprepared spirit;No; heaven forfend! I would not kill thy soul.DESDEMONA Talk you of killing?OTHELLO Ay, I do.DESDEMONA Then heavenHave mercy on me!OTHELLO Amen, with all my heart!DESDEMONA If you say so, I hope you will not kill me.OTHELLO Hum!DESDEMONA And yet I fear you; for you are fatal thenWhen your eyes roll so: why I should fear I know not,Since guiltiness I know not; but yet I feel I fear.OTHELLO Think on thy sins.DESDEMONA They are loves I bear to you.OTHELLO Ay, and for that thou diest.DESDEMONA That death's unnatural that kills for loving.Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?Some bloody passion shakes your very frame:These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,They do not point on me.OTHELLO Peace, and be still!DESDEMONA I will so. What's the matter?OTHELLO That handkerchief which I so loved and gave theeThou gavest to Cassio.DESDEMONA No, by my life and soul!Send for the man, and ask him.OTHELLO Sweet soul, take heed,Take heed of perjury; thou art on thy deathbed.DESDEMONA Ay, but not yet to die.OTHELLO Yes, presently:Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin;Thou art to die.DESDEMONA Then Lord have mercy on me!OTHELLO I say, amen.DESDEMONA And have you mercy too! I never didOffend you in my life; never loved CassioBut with such general warranty of heavenAs I might love: I never gave him token.OTHELLO By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in's hand.I saw the handkerchief.DESDEMONA He found it then;I never gave it him: send for him hither;Let him confess a truth.OTHELLO He hath confess'd.DESDEMONA What, my lord?OTHELLO That he hath used thee.DESDEMONA He will not say so.OTHELLO No, his mouth is stopp'd;Honest Iago hath ta'en order for't.DESDEMONA O! my fear interprets: what, is he dead?OTHELLO Ay.DESDEMONA Alas! he is betray'd and I undone.OTHELLO Out, strumpet! weep'st thou for him to my face?DESDEMONA O, banish me, my lord, but kill me not!OTHELLO Down, strumpet!DESDEMONA Kill me to-morrow: let me live to-night!OTHELLO Nay, if you strive--DESDEMONA But half an hour!OTHELLO Being done, there is no pause.DESDEMONA But while I say one prayer!OTHELLO It is too late.He stifles her