There is also a particular scene in the playing which Desdemona for shadows her death. She tells Emilia that if she should die before her maid, she wishes to die in her wedding sheets. In act four scene three Desdemona quotes “If I do die, before thee, prithee shroud me In one of these sheets”. The audience knows that Othello is going to kill Desdemona, but not how or where. And this basically spoils it. Shakespeare does this to tell his audience that the end is coming