E is a strong voice in final scene, defies husband on numerous occasions in order to speak truth: "No, I will speak as liberal as the north: / Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, / All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak". She speaks out despite lago threatening her, and she eventually pays with her life when he stabs her. Despite the fact that Desdemona has been silenced, E becomes the final strong female voice of the play.