handkerchief of Desdemona’s and convinces Othello of her improper actions. He stages yet another carefully monitored conversation with Cassio and finishes the job of hardening Othello’s heart, leading to the climax, and tragedy of the play. Othello arranges with Iago the deaths of both Desdemona and Cassio, his wife at his own hands, in the midst of his jealous anger. Because of her pledge to plea for Cassio, Desdemona only further worsens her case to her husband, solidifying his suspicions of their affair. Iago utilizes Roderigo one last time to help him in the murder of Cassio. The two however fail to kill Cassio, instead only wounding him. However, waiting for the cry of his death, Othello hears the attack and immediately takes to his part of the plan, going to Desdemona in her bed and smothering her with a pillow. In the final scenes, Iago’s wife Emilia reveals the ruse to Lodovico and Gratiano, their fellow
full of cherry trees. He deserts the army a few days later. Foolishly, he tries to go back home instead of fleeing to Holland, and he is captured and tried as a deserter. The Second Company never hears from him again. An enemy shoots Müller point-blank in the abdomen. His agonizingly painful death lasts half an hour. Paul receives Müller's boots, which once belonged to Kemmerich. The war continues to go badly for the Germans. The quality of the soldiers' food worsens, and there is considerably less food. Dysentery strikes them with a vengeance. The Germans' weapons are worn and useless against the newer, more powerful artillery of their enemies. The new recruits are younger than ever before and have no training. Wounded men are sent back to fight before they are healed; even crippling physical defects do not save them from combat duty. Leer bleeds to death from a thigh wound. The summer of 1918 is horrific.
level — he's not the reluctant k i n d of hero. However, the I R O N Y is thick as he declares himself and Fabrizio to be "the luckiest sons-of-bitches alive." If he knew what awaits him, he might have cause to be afraid. Jack is a slightly superhuman figure w h o doesn't appear to have major flaws, but he will have an I N N E R P R O B L E M , t r y i n g to find and w i n the love of his life. If he has a flaw, i t s that he's a l i t t l e too cocky and arrogant, which later worsens his problems w i t h C a l and Lovejoy. H i s O U T E R P R O B L E M or challenge is first to climb into society and then to survive the disaster. H e is something of a C A T A L Y S T H E R O , one who is already fully developed and who doesn't change much, but who spends his energy in h e l p i n g others to change. H e is also a T R I C K S T E R H E R O , using deceit and disguise to penetrate the enemy's defenses