Metaphor and contrast in lines 299-318 of Act III, Scene iii of Othello Othello's feelings towards Desdemona are wavering. He hates her for her infidelity and, at the same time, is devoted to the faithful Desdemona he once knew. These conflicting emotions are developed using a mixture of metaphor and contrast. This man is extremely honest and knows all the (qualities) with an erudite spirit of human relationships. If I showed her to be haggard, thinking that her children were my dear heartstrings, I would boo her and let her go to the wind in the throes of luck. Perhaps, because I am black and have not those soft parts of conversation that chamberlains have, or because I have declined in the valley of years - but it is not much - she is gone, I have been ill-treated, and my relief must be to hate her . O curse of marriage, if we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites! I would rather be a toad and live in the steam of a prison than keep a corner in the thing I love for the uses of others. Yet it is the plague (of) the great; They have fewer prerogatives than cowards. It is unassailable destiny...