"This is the night / That either makes me or fordoes me quite." (V.i.132-133) says Iago. Well, Emilia spilled the beans. As predicted, her innocence and honesty saved the play in the end by spoiling Iago's plans. Had she not been treated like trash the whole play, she may have held a stronger loyalty to her husband in the end. Instead, she claims that she hopes he rots in hell for the lies he told and the crimes that were committed as a result of them. The webs that Iago wove so eloquently around his lies crumble with a single telling of the truth and he must admit defeat, "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know.
From this time forth I never will speak word." (V.ii.316). Now, the two honest characters have lost their lives for the evil workings of a single other. Othello, overcome by the horror of the situation and the actions he has committed, takes his own life so that he doesn't have to live with what he has done.
Shakespeare at his uplifing best.
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