Desdemona has not fallen victim to Othello’s insane rage and jealousy by her wrong doing. She isn’t even the main target of the demise brought upon Iago. The one to fall is Othello‚ but to achieve this‚ Iago must get him to kill Desdemona. Totally deprived of breath and of words to tell the truth. Wrong place’s at the most wrong times‚ this is what made her the passive victim for Iago’s true victim. Desdemona is probably the strongest willed character in the play‚ although she is a woman. Shakespeare
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of the play witness how the deceitfulness of the main character‚ Iago‚ toys with the mind of Othello‚ generally leading Othello into having the jealous thoughts towards his peers and an hateful heart towards his wife‚ Desdemona. At the beginning of the story‚ Othello makes it apparent to the other men in the story that he is okay with Desdemona’s independence‚ and is actually proud of that in her and makes it apparent that‚ her independance is a feature that attracted Othello to Desdemona. “ But
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“I am glad of this‚ for now I shall have reason to show the love and duty that I bear you with franker spirit. Therefore‚ as I am bound‚ receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof. Look to your wife‚ observe her well with Cassio. Wear your eyes thus‚ not jealous nor secure. I would not have your free and noble nature out of self-bounty be abused. Look to ’t. I know our country disposition well. In Venice they do let God see the pranks they dare not show their husbands. Their best conscience is
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about Desdemona. Desdemona was a beautiful‚ young‚ white Venetian girl but also she disobeys her father’s expectations by marrying a black man‚ she also challenges the society that largely disapproves of intercultural marriages and also she gets abused by her husband. In this way‚ Desdemona’s relationship with Othello speaks to the play’s concerns with the 16th century attitudes about Lust‚ Defying social standards of the 16th century and also domestic violence. For example in the play it shows
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Gone With Common Wisdom‚ In With Inebriated Falsity In the Shakespearean tragedy Othello‚ the eventual downfall of the main protagonist is from his lack of wisdom and flawed knowledge. However‚ although being vitally important to the play‚ these two factors were not driving reason towards his eventual death; they were just catalysts to a separate set of components perpetuated by the antagonist. Through other characters who seem just as easily manipulated due to their ignorance (up until the very
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The tragedy of Othello tells the tale of a man whose love was tarnished by the seed of suspicion. Shakespeare effortlessly portrays the transformation Othello’s love for Desdemona goes through as it becomes an aberration of what it once was. The film ‘O’ directed by Tim Blake Nelson is an adaptation of the well crafted play Othello by William Shakespeare. The film has many similarities to the play‚ and the storyline of the movie mirrors the main events that take place in the play as well as highlighting
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In the play “Othello” by William Shakespeare Iago plays the master manipulator and manages to deceive many of the other characters especially Othello and Cassio. It can be said that his motives are based solely on his insecurities due to the fact his goal in the play was to ruin Othello’s life. He does this by using psychological manipulation on Othello’s thoughts and makes him believe that Cassio and Desdemona are fond of each other. Which basically means that he targets anyone that brings out his
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into question Othello’s love for Desdemona. When confessing his love for her in front of the senate Othello says‚ “She loved me for the dangers I had passed‚/ And I loved her that she did pity them” (I.iii.193-194). At the beginning of the play Othello clearly states the reason why he and desdemona fell in love with each other. Neither of them fell in love with each other’s personality‚ but instead fell for the idea of the other.Desdemona fell in love with Othello for the stories he told from his
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To what extent is Desdemona presented as a tragic victim in the play ‘Othello’? Desdemona‚ the daughter of Venetian senator Brabantio‚ is captivated by Othello’s fables of bravery as a warrior and she falls in love with him. In view of the fact that Desdemona is a “fair” woman and Othello is “an old black ram”‚ commonly referred to as ‘the Moor’‚ their marriage indicates that her fate might be tragic. In ‘Othello’‚ Desdemona is portrayed as a courageous young woman whose character is used against
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and role of Desdemona in Othello? If any character in Othello embodies goodness‚ it is Desdemona. In simple terms‚ she appears to be the antithesis of all the evil and malice that is represented by Iago. Yet she is not a completely ‘flat’ character – Shakespeare gives to her certain characteristics and human qualities that result in her being a far deeper and more interesting character. Much of the interest in her is owing to the fact that each character in the plot appears to have his/her own
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