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The first is Othello's talk of me/my and you, which contrasts to Desdemona's easy thinking in terms of a couple: our Loues and our dayes. The other is Othello's use of the formal vous form. Unlike Desdemona, who always yous her lord and husband, Othello has the choice of either the familiar or the formal form of the second person singular in addressing his wife. 182 and 202) support the idea of distance already suggested by 'O, my faire Warriour'. If the scene is formal, a public ceremonial, Othello does little to relax it and make it intimate.
DESDEMONA. Come, come: you'l neuer meete a more sufficient man. OTHELLO. The Handkerchiefe. DESDEMONA. I pray talke me of Cassio. [Q line] OTHELLO. The handkercher. [Q line] DESDEMONA. A man that all his time Hath founded his good Fortunes on your loue; Shar'd dangers with you. OTHELLO. The Handkerchiefe. DESDEMONA. lnsooth, you are too blame. OTHELLO. ] Exit Othello. 88-99: 'But to be free, and bounteous to her min de' 35 The pressure on Othello will, shortly, dismiss him from his senses for a while; here it dismisses him from Desdemona.
The hearts of old, gaue hands: But our new Heraldry is hands, not hearts. DESDEMONA. I cannot speake of this: Come, now your promise. OTHELLO. What promise, Chucke? 31-46) OTHELLO. iii. She is given, in lieu of such plot-collapsing information, a sinister kind of reversed marriage, an un-marriage, a consignment to a strait austerity. This strict life of penitence would be more suited to a religious nearvotarist such as Isabella in Measure for Measure than to a warm young wife. Desdemona is advised to take it up not because, as in Ophelia's case, all mankind are sinners and she must not breed, but because she herself is sinful, the harbourer of the young and sweating devil in her hand.