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Detailed explanation-1: -She denies giving Cassio the handkerchief but Othello assumes she is lying. She pleads for her life but Othello is so convinced by the stories Iago has told him that he won’t listen to her and kills her.

Detailed explanation-2: -Othello triumphantly admits to Emilia that he killed Desdemona, and when she asks him why, Othello tells her that Iago opened his eyes to Desdemona’s falsehood. Unfazed by Othello’s threat that she “were best” to remain silent, Emilia calls out for help, bringing Montano, Graziano, and Iago to the scene (V. ii.

Detailed explanation-3: -What justification does Othello try to give the murder of Desdemona in scene ii? The justification that Othello gives for killing Desdemona is that if he doesn’t kill his wife she will betray more men. Othello states, “Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men.

Detailed explanation-4: -’Twas I that kill’d her. O, the more angel she, And you the blacker devil!

Detailed explanation-5: -Desdemona dies in the last scene of Shakespeare’s Othello. The Moor arrives at her chamber, intent on serving as both judge, jury, and executioner. He asks Desdemona if she prayed before bed, and urges her to confess her sins. The man then smothers his wife with a pillow.