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Her use of the word consecrate shows how she was simple minded to fall victim to Othello’s personality making her seem weak and gullible. To further express her ignorance and gullibility, she was naive to marital relationships. In the play she asked Emilia was it possible for a wife to cheat on her husband. This shows how she was naive and ignorant to the fact that Othello would accuse her of infidelity giving her lack of knowledge on such a topic. Also this goes back to the purity of Desdemona’s character she was so pure she never even suspected cheating as a source of jealousy in marriage. All of these examples clearly displays the many interpreted characteristics of Desdemona in Othello.

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