Othello - William Shakespeare
"For, of my heart, those charms, thine eyes, are blotted. Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted." (Act V.i. 35). In the first part of the quote, Othello describes how he perceives that Desdemona's love has been tainted by her unfaithfulness. But in the second, we see love gone wrong as he swears to kill her on the very sheets where lust overtook her. He claims that she has to die or she'll continue down the path of cheating. Still, before killing her he asks her if she has prayed for forgiveness of all her sins, revealing that a part of him really does not want to kill her. He manages to draw it out for almost the entire scene then finally decides to pull the trigger and murder the woman he loves all for the sake of jealousy, the tainter of love.
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