Desdemona lies asleep in bed, and Othello enters, dreadfully calm and sure in what he must do. Desdemona wakens and calls him to bed, but he tells her to pray at once, repenting anything she needs to repent, and he will wait while she prays because he does not want to kill her soul. Suddenly, Desdemona realizes that Othello intends to kill her. She is afraid, although she knows she is not guilty. Knowing that she cannot convince him of her fidelity, Desdemona weeps and begs him to banish her rather than kill her, or let her live just a little more, but he stifles her, presumably with a pillow.
Explanation:
In the epic poem Beowulf, both good and evil are clearly defined. Beowulf himself embodies all that is good, but it's often expressed through his super-human capabilities. The monsters, including Grendel, his mother, and the dragon, all embody evil, and in fighting and defeating them, Beowulf is working to save not only the monsters' victims but the whole of humanity.
In "The Wife's Lament" a plot by her husband's kinsmen initiated the wife's exile.
Explanation:
"The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English poem found in the Exeter Book (the 10th-century anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry). It consists of 53 lines, and is and generally treated as an elegy or woman's song, which shows a woman's grief about a lost of absent lover, although there are numerous different interpretations and disagreements regarding the genre and theme.
If we take a look at the poem, we can see that the cause of the wife's exile are her husband's kinsmen:
<em>They insinuated, the kinsmen of that man,</em>
<em>by secret thought, to separate us two</em>
<em>so that we two, widest apart in the worldly realm,</em>
<em>should live most hatefully—and it harrowed me. </em>
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<em>My lord ordered me to take this grove</em>
<em>for a home — very few dear to me</em>
<em>in this land, almost no loyal friends.</em>
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