Othello

'Every day in the courts, men get off murder charges because the victims "nagged" them; in one such case in England, a man who drowned his common law wife by holding her head in a plastic garbage can full of home-made beer was set free by the judge who was deeply moved by his tale of the wounding things she said to him. As he left the court, the murderer said, "Don't get me wrong; …

…point of the play, just before Emilia gives the handkerchief to Iago, he says to himself: <Tab/>Yet 'tis the plague to great ones; <Tab/>Prerogatived are they less than base. <Tab/>Tis destiny unshunnable, like death: <Tab/>Even then this forked plague is fated to us <Tab/>When we do quicken. (III, iii, 270 - 274)