Othello part 2: 3

In the last act of Shakespeare's Othello, Othello makes a pun on the word light. He says, "Put out the light, and then put out the light (V. ii. 7)." He wants to turn off the candlelight. Then, he will kill his wife's light, which is her life. However, he has doubts about performing the act. If he kills her and regrets it, it will be too late to save her. She will be dead like a light cannot be revive. He also makes an allusion to Promethean light. Prometheus was man within a Greek myth who stole the first fire from the gods. He states that after he kills her that he will not be able to revive her because they cannot cheat death.