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Example-lines of reasoning that your audience can relate to “What if I do obey? How may the duke be therewith satisfied, whose messengers are here about my side upon some present business of the state to bring me to him?”  Othello and Brabantio work for the same boss – the Duke. By appealing to Brabantio’s mutual interest in not displeasing their boss, Othello convinces Brabantio not to arrest him on the spot. 