Othello Speech
...that Othello is arrogant and sees himself as a hero who is willing to kill Desdemona for all men, to protect his men from her betrayal. He compares Desdemona to a rose “When I have plucked thy rose, I cannot give it vital growth again”, where a rose is delicate, beautiful, fragile and once plucked from its roots, it dies. He symbolises her as a rose where once he kills her she will not revive. A phrase where Othello expresses his love for Desdemona “Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee and love thee after”, shows he will love her after she is dead. Why kill Desdemona if he loves her? Othello wants to kill her because he believes that she is guilty and has betrayed him with having an affair with Michael Cassio. After Desdemona is dead “I must weep. But they are cruel tears”, him weeping represents sorrow for her death but they are cruel tears because he is disgusted by her affair and feels that she has done wrong. The last phrase of the monologue ends with Othello saying “she wakes”, this brings dramatic tension to the atmosphere of the play where the whole issue is revealed to Desdemona and her purity and innocence has been taken over by Othello. The meaning of the monol...