Entry #2 September 17th, 2012

"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. The languages they use and the social and historial context in which the language signify are indirect and direct revelations of that power and its limitations" (Morrion,1010).

"I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss." (Act V, Scene II, lines 359-360) Othello

What are the implications of the language Shakespeare uses?

With Othello's last words directed at his dead wife, Desdemonda he unpacks his disappointment in having led his late wife to her untimely demise. The love and jealousy that Othello held ended up killing her. To repent his wrongdoings Othello, in turn, kills himself after killing her. With the language Othello uses we are able to see a connection between power in general. His language is used powerfully to convey the implications of death. Here we see the limitations of life, death with a final line. Here we have repentence with the ultimate ending of existence.