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Othello, Lodovico, Desdemona, and Emilia are all present. Presumably, dinner has just ended. Everybody leaves but for Desdemona and Emilia. They comment on how calm Othello now seems. He has made plans to meet up with Desdemona to sleep with her that night.
Emilia helps Desdemona prepare for sleep. Desdemona hints at her belief that tonight might be her last night alive. She tells Emilia to shroud her body in one of her bed sheets if she does die. As Desdemona gets ready, she sings a song, “Willow.” It’s a song that one of her mother’s servants sang. This servant, Barbary, was betrayed by her husband and she sang the same song when she died.
The women speak about the possibility of infidelity in a relationship. The innocent Desdemona cannot believe that some women have the ability to cheat on their husbands. Emilia remarks that women are capable of cheating just like men. She says that men are more likely to cheat, even though women have the same bodily desires as men. Emilia also says that if a woman does cheat it is probably because it is an ill that they have learned from men.
OTHELLO -- ACT IV, 3
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