All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven.
‘Tis gone.
Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!
Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne
To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
For ’tis of aspics’ tongues!
– William Shakespeare
Othello, Act 3, Scene 3. Othello says that his love for Desdemona is completely gone after Iago convinces him that she is having an affair with Cassio. Appealing for help with his revenge, Othello appears to associate himself with darkness and hell. He uses personification to describe his hatred of Desdemona as "tyrannous," while love is personified as surrendering its place in his heart to hate. In a metaphor, Othello likens his jealous heart to a heart filled with venonous snakes. The motif of black and white appears in this passage with vengeance given the color of black, the color of Othello’s skin.