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Desdemona pledges her love and loyalty to Othello before her father and the Duke
Significant because this public declaration marks the point of no return for the relationship. Also, it mirrors the very public nature of the demise of the relationship at the end of the play. It is perhaps this public pressure on what essentially should be a private, domestic relationship - a marriage - that contributes to the pressure cooker the relationship is plunged into when the couple leave Venice for Cyprus. -
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Othello's wedding night through to his death
