"His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift," Desdemona says of Othello; these paradoxes highlight Desdemona's determination to set things right. Ironically, it is this determination to "intermingle everything [Othello] does with Cassio's suit" that fuels Othello's jealousy, which is the ultimate cause of her fate. Had Desdemona not felt such a sense of justice or been good enough to advocate for a case in which she was not involved, she might have …showed first 75 words of 1928 total…

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