Strike on the tinder, ho!
Give me a taper! call up all my people!
This accident is not unlike my dream:
Belief of it oppresses me already.
Light, I say! light!
– William Shakespeare
Othello, Act 1, Scene 1. Brabantio’s erupts into a fit of rage at Iago’s taunting about Desdemona and Othello having a sexual affair – "making the beast with two backs." Roused from his bed he requests light and for his people to gather together to form a search party to seek out Othello. The symbolism of light and dark is used to good effect, as Brabantio sets off into the night with lighted torches to uncover the truth.