Who Is To Blame For Desdemona's Death

Desdemona is murdered by Othello as it is thought that she cuckolded him, and because she disregards the will of Brabantio in Act 1 to marry Othello, Iago makes Othello believe that it is likely that she would also trick him: “She did deceive her father, marrying you” (3.3.11). This statement manifests into Othello’s self-justified desire to kill his wife: “Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men. Put out the light and then put out the light” (5.2.6-7). “Yet” and “else” show how he is reasoning with himself, in an attempt to justify his subsequent actions. Othello becomes more vocal towards the end of the play due to the loss of his honour, and he needs to reclaim it, otherwise he will be even more of an outcast in a society in which he is already at a disadvantage, being a ‘Moor’.

Iago’s rumor of Desdemona’s fictional affairs with Cassio created tension and destructional jealousy. As a result, the solution to his problem was to kill Desdemona. He was very determined to take her life because he truly believed that she was disloyal to him. Othello did not let anything stop him from doing what he thought he must’ve done. In the book he says, “Presently.

In Elaine Dobbyn’s article, “Relationships in Othello” she explains why Iago put doubt into Othello’s mind and what the reason was for killing Desdamona. Othello considers Iago, his best friend and to be an honest person. When Iago does not get promoted, he becomes angry at Othello and has plans to for revenge. Iago’s other motives to have revenge is his jealousy over Othello’s status and how happy he is in love. Desdamona was the one to pursue Othello, after falling in love with his stories.

Because of this, Othello is partially responsible for the deaths. Desdemona, though an obvious victim, is also responsible for her own demise and the deaths of the others. Though she is an honest and faithful wife, she also proves to be a foolish woman. There are two reasons why Desdemona can be shown accountable for the tragedies. The first reason is her ignorance.

He wants to kill Desdemona because he thinks she is cheating on him. Othello went from loving and caring for this woman to wishing for her to die. Insercurity ends up ruining his relationship and making him forget why he fell in love with Desdemona in the first

Because of this inability to see what Iago was planning, Othello was effortlessly controlled and deceived into believing that Desdemona, his new spouse, is having an affair. He believes the expression of Iago more than he confides in his own woman. By confiding in the wrong individual, Othello murders the lady that he cherishes, and because of this terrible mistake, he kills himself as

Othello thinks the world of Desdemona and trusts her completely, yet through manipulation, he resulted in violence toward her. Iago made this happen, Iago made Othello kill his wife. Act 5 scene 1, “ Oh, brave Iago, honest and just, That hast such noble sense of thy friend’s wrong! Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead, And your unblest fate hies.

The Moor tells Iago what Desdemona has done to him by cheating on him: “To try me with affliction, had they rained all kinds of sores and shames on my bare head, steeped me in my poverty to the very lips.” (IV. ii. 48-50). After Othello is told that Desdemona is cheating on him, he wants to kill Desdemona for doing wrong to him. He is only talking about how it affects him and how wrong she is to do that.

Othello is also a man who does not ever wish to seem weak and out of control only confident; therefore, he lies and pretends that his is not worried and jealous even though these have already begun to slowly eat away at his soul. Just as Othello demanded of Iago, Iago falsely proves that Desdemona is cheating on Othello, which causes him to completely abandon his discretion and morals. He no longer has any tenderness towards Desdemona and his logic completely elapses, causing Othello to plan to make “her rot and perish and be damned” because he believes that she “shall not live” anymore (IV, i, 172-73). Although Iago provides only surface proof of Desdemona’s disloyalty, Othello completely believes it due to Iago’s method of deception, which made him mentally insecure and put him in epileptic detachment from reality.

In the play Othello, there are actually more characters responsible for the unfortunate deaths, aside from Iago and his manipulation. Brabantio, as Desdemona’s father could have stopped her tragic death if he had protested against their marriage despite Desdemona’s profession of love for the moor and insistently kept them apart. As an attempt to try and win her husband’s love back, Emilia chose to give Iago the handkerchief that Othello had given Desdemona instead of giving it back to her which led the handkerchief to end up at Cassio’s, convincing Othello that Desdemona had cuckolded him with his new lieutenant. Cassio could have prevented the deaths of Roderigo, Desdemona and Othello if only he had been persistent

Cassio was unknowingly part of Iago’s plan, he was portrayed to Othello as a drunken brute who is in a love affair with the moors wife. Desdemona and Cassio were both betrayed by people who they put great trust into. As the play developed you could see Othello’s thoughts get more irrational and Desdemona get more afraid and desperate to prove she was not cheating on

This disbelief and betrayal lead to Desdemona death as well as destroying Othello personality/ego. Lodovico who captured Iago came back to Othello who and ask “where is this rash and most unfortunate man?” than Othello answered back with “That’s he that was Othello. Here I am.” (Shakespeare 5.1.295-305).

He explains that Desdemona, having betrayed her father, could betray Othello himself too. This takes out another piece of Othello’s mind, leading him to thoughts about unfaithful women of that time period, creating another hole for Iago’s monstrous plan. Piece by piece, Iago destroys Othello's personality by shooting bullets of doubt and jealousy on him, much like

Iago’s main reason to denigrate Desdemona’s character is his love for Othello. Consequently, he will do anything to gain Othello’s admiration. When Iago is putting his plan into action and planting in Othello’s mind that Desdemona is not faithful to him, Iago says:

Othello, in the play, does what he does because he has a strong sense of honor but also because he is afraid of people not respecting him. Iago is able to make Othello jealous because Othello wants to believe that she actually loves him. But he always worries because his different. So he has a problem trusting her because he thinks maybe she does not respect him like the other people on Venice thinks of him like a black moor instead of a human being. He kills Desdemona because he is hurt, angry and betrayed but also because he thinks she hates him like the others venetians. He is angry and felling disrespected. Then he ends up killing himself he does that because he realized that she actually loves him. He fells grief and anger at himself.