How Does Othello Really Love Desdemona

In the beginning of the play, Othello and Desdemona have a strong relationship. When others interfere with their marriage, Othello

Desdemona- Desdemona is Othello 's wife and her goal is to prove to Othello that she loves him. They make a sacrifice by eloping without her father knowing. She stays faithful to Othello the entire time despite his suspicion raised by Iago. She spends the entire time wondering why he 's being this way towards her and trying to steer his judgement in the other direction with the help of Emilia. This is to no prevail because she becomes the victim in the end due to the actions of Iago. She serves as a foil to Emilia because their ideals contrast each other. Desdemona has a naïveté to her that prevents her from even believing that wives cheat on their husbands while Emilia is sure of it and even believes the blame falls on the husband for the actions of the wife.

Othello and Desdemona have peculiar relationship to say the least. While the story of Othello does not give us many insights on their relationship, throughout the story, we begin to question the concept of their relationship as a whole. The audience mostly blame the story of Othello ending in a tragedy on Iago, but as critical thinkers, they should consider the flaws of Othello and Desdemona’s relationship. Along with flaws, Othello and Desdemona had relationship issues already in areas of behavior and backgrounds. It seems more likely that their relationship was going to fail regardless of the actions of Iago.

When Othello and Desdemona were not yet married, Othello would tell stories of the wars that he had fought in. That is what led Desdemona to fall in love with Othello. The two had rushed into their marriage. They married each other because they were in "love" with in each other. They did not even really know each other. I do not think that either of them really knew of the notion of "love" to begin with. Othello was much older than Desdemona, which made them two really different people. She was young and had a full life ahead. He was set in his ways and was a bit more reserved. When Desdemona eloped, she deceived her father. This fact made Othello

"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not” (Picoult, 384). This quote is the definition of true love, something the two protagonists of this play sadly never had. The tragedy Othello is about a general of the Venetian army, and his beautiful wife Desdemona, whose lives are completely ruined by the deceitful, cunning, and cowardly Iago. One of Iago’s biggest accomplishments was breaking up Othello and Desdemona's relationship by getting it into Othello’s head that Desdemona was cheating on him. This really made the reader question Othello’s feelings towards Desdemona as for someone who claimed to have love Desdemona with a passion, Othello sure was quick to believe Iago’s lies and turn on Desdemona. Based on his actions towards Desdemona, Othello proved that he does not truly love Desdemona because he is insecure, lacks trust, and is a very jealous person.

Loyalty is described as giving or showing firm and constant support or allegiance to a person or institution. In the play Othello, Emilia really shows this trait of loyalty to Desdemona in a numerous amounts of ways. Emilia and Desdemona have a type of relationship that can only be classified as true friendship, almost family like. In the play Othello, they both really show how much they care about being honest with each other and being protective of one another and how they will always have each others back. Since Emilia is more protective and caring for Desdemona than Iago, Emilia is more loyal to Desdemona.

Desdemona finds new pleasure in her husband’s deeds and detaches her claim from Brabantio. While acknowledging dependence on Othello, she explains, “I do perceive here a divided duty/… So much I challenge that I may profess” (1.3.183-190). By owning his adventures, Desdemona removes herself from her father. Thus, she blindly becomes dependent on the heroic image of Othello rather than the Moor himself.

Desdemona perceives Othello in a very innocent way. She believes that he is kind and gentle but can also protect her. Due to these thoughts she never even imagines that Othello could be jealous of anybody. Othello, unlike Desdemona, is concerned with the difference between them. Iago points out to Othello that they are different and unnatural fit when he says earlier, “Not to affect many proposed matches/

Desdemona got married to Othello by stories of his adventure in travel and war and he was given permission by Brabantio, the father of Desdemona, the duke, and the senators after he was reported by Iago and Roderigo for stealing her away from her father. Roderigo is a man who love to have Desdemona to himself but he was convinced by Iago which require his money to win Desdemona back. Roderigo is willing to agree with Iago plans to use Cassio as a bait to both Othello and Desdemona. Iago became close to Othello by winning his trust and convince him that Desdemona is having affair with Cassio. Iago kept Cassio closer to Desdemona by asking her for help to get his position back and by making Othello be suspicious of them having an affair.

Love, jealousy and obsession is a consistent and relevant theme in most tragedies. In tragedy, the initial love that the protagonist feels for another character is often organically surpassed by stronger emotions of jealousy and obsession when the individual lacks a fundamental sense of identity. This motif in the convention of tragedy leads to the downfall of a hero or, modernly, a regular person. Othello introduces this theme in the first scenes of the text. Othello weds Desdemona and this event creates a conflict between Brabantio and Othello, to which Brabantio warns Othello: “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/She has deceiv’d her father and may thee.” (A1:S3) This rhyming couplet instills in Othello a mistrust towards Desdemona,

Shakespeare retells his play in a book called Othello. Othello is a general of venetian army who is in love with Desdemona daughter of Brabantio, who is a senator of Venice. Othello was a moor, that mean that he is black and barbarian and citizens of Venice never accepted him as one of them. Othello’s and Desdemona's marriage was very controversial because of his race, however Othello’s friend Iago uses the opportunity to become a higher rank soldier and tries everything to succeed.

There is no way that Othello truly loved Desdemona. As stated in the last paragraph, Othello eats up Iago’s lies without another thought. After assuming Iago was correct in his accusations, Othello was quick to become abusive towards Desdemona, even beginning to plot her death and how he would murder his own wife. Othello didn’t even confront Desdemona until he decided to carry through with the unjust slaughter, in which she desperately states “I never did / Offend you in my life, never loved Cassio / But with such general warranty of heaven / As I might love. I never gave him token,” (V. ii. 65-70). Othello, however, chooses not to listen to his wife, to his partner who he oh-so-loved, and responds by telling her that she is a “perjured woman”

Readers are left to decide whether Othello genuinely loves and values Desdemona as her own person, or whether he is simply attracted to her physically and sexually. In Othello, Shakespeare uses the language and actions of Othello to reveal that his marriage to Desdemona is selfish, shallow, and driven by lust.

Othello and Desdemona’s relationship escalated really quickly because their relationship was moving too quick. This is shown

The tragic play Othello by William Shakespeare, discusses the relationship between Othello and Desdemona that begins as loving, but abruptly alters to a hateful relationship due to a lack of truth. Dishonesty and misunderstandings between Desdemona and Othello drive the collapse of their marriage as well as Iago’s deceitful words which force Othello to discredit Desdemona’s love. William Shakespeare portrays the fall of the relationship of Desdemona and Othello due to his ability of believing false delusions he hears about his wife and the reason for this is from his distrust for women, his jealousy and the fact that he truly lacks confidence in himself, leads him to doubt the love Desdemona has for him.