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Explanation:
In Othello the metaphor is used deliberately, almost literally, so that the comparison becomes explicit between mental conception and physical birth. Iago plays with the metaphor in Act Two, when Desdemona asks him to compose some lines of praise; he describes how his invention is taxing his brain, then announces: "But my Muse labours, / And thus she is deliver'd" (2.1.127-28). As the comparison is extended with reference to Iago's plot, however, playgoers are reminded of the metaphor's basis in ideas about biological generation, and they may also recall Iago's reference at the end of Act One to the impending "birth" as "monstrous"; as the metaphor becomes conscious, it helps to convey the morally monstrous nature of Iago's "conception."
