Continuing our series of 4-letter words that may affect the human-companion animal bond, this week we consider some of the profane effects of love. In Shakespeare’s play Othello, right before Othello commits suicide after killing his beloved Desdemona he describes how he wants to be remembered:
“Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well.”
Shakespearean scholars to this day argue whether it is possible to love too well. However “too well” is an subjective phrase. I suspect that Desdemona might have argued this point as Othello was smothering her, as may those animals who pay the price of unwise human love.
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