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The Fall of Othello The Othello of the Fourth Act is Othello in his fall. His fall is rarely finished, yet he is abundantly changed. Towards the end of the Temptation-scene he becomes now and again generally awful, yet his glory remains practically undiminished. Indeed, even in the accompanying scene (III iv), where he goes to test Desdemona in the matter of the hanky, 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 Tumult has come. A slight interim of time might be conceded here. It is nevertheless slight; for it was fundamental for Iago to hustle on, and frightfully perilous 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 recuperate from the disarray of the principal stun. Still there is a slight interim; and when Othello returns we see initially that he is a changed man. He is genuinely depleted, and his brain is bewildered. 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 legend who has appeared to us just second to Coriolanus in physical force, trembles all finished; he murmurs incoherent words; an obscurity out of nowhere intercedes between his eyes and the world; he takes it for the shivering declaration of nature to the loathsomeness he has quite recently heard, [Endnote 6] and he falls silly to the ground. At the point when he recuperates 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 protected at this poin t. The sight just adds to the disarray of insight the frenzy of wrath; and an eager hunger for retribution, fighting with movements of unbounded aching and lament, overcomes them. The postponement till sunset is torment to him. His discretion has entirely abandoned him, and he strikes his significant other within the sight of the Venetian agent. 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.