Yet could I also stand for that, well, fine. But there where I have gathered my heart, Where I must live or not bear life, The fountain from which my stream flows, Or dry up — to be thrown there! Or keep it like a cistern for filthy toads, To tie knots and sexes in it! Turn your complexion there, Patience, you young cherub with rosy lips, - Yes, there, be dark as hell! » (Act IV Scene II Lines 54-64). He states that he believes that Desdemona is in fact cheating on him and says that he believed that Desdemona was going to be the woman from whom his family would descend, but that thought was shattered when he realized that Desdemona was cheating. him. He uses the metaphor of the fountain: “The fountain from which my current flows, or else fried”. He compares it to a fountain that is supposed to flow with water (the water would be its offspring), but as he continues he says that it dries up, meaning that it does not there is more offspring and leaves the reader to assume that he does not want to have sex and therefore does it. I don't like it. This also shows foreshadowing because she actually doesn't help Othello continue his lineage because he kills her. Although Shakespeare foreshadows many deaths of feelings and ideas, he also foreshadows the death of