Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate
Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature
Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue
The shot of accident, nor dart of chance,
Could neither graze nor pierce?
– William Shakespeare
Othello, Act 4, Scene 1. Lodovico arrives to Cyprus from Venice in utter disbelief at the change in Othello’s personality. The calm military leader Lodovico knew who didn’t break under pressure and was in control is not who appears before him now. The reality is that Othello has lost control, struck his wife in public and his speech is incoherent and rambling. Othello’s once noble reputation has been shattered.