What prevents Othello from being moved by Desdemona’s appeal (IV, ii,33–92)?
What will be an ideal response?
His heart has been hardened against her by Cassio’s leering and smirking and Bianca’s possession of the handkerchief. He says that he could have endured illness, poverty, loss of all prospects, and even public scorn and mockery, as long as he had her love to sustain him, but the thought that she no longer loves him is the one thing he cannot cope with. Note the image of his heart as a “cistern for foul toads / To knot and gender in” (IV, ii, 63–64): his comparison of human actions to those of loathsome animals shows how completely his thinking has been taken over by Iago.
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