Brabantio

One of the main oppositions that are presented in this act in the difference in the characters of Othello and Brabantio. Brabantio is angry at Othello for marrying his daughter behind his back and shows it through his harsh and unthoughtful words. He genuinely believes that it is completely impossible for Desdemona to truly love Othello as he is of a different skin color, and accuses him of witchcraft: “O thou foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter? / Damned as thou art, thou hast enchanted

of this play, Desdemona’s father, Brabantio. Brabantio is often considered to be a minor role in Othello, frequently overlooked in intellectual writings about the play. However, he displays a character arc in the first three scenes that would take a majority of characters an entire production to portray. The audience is first introduced to Brabantio during the first scene when he is awakened by the story’s antagonist, Iago, and his friend, Roderigo. Brabantio immediately puts off an air of discontent

Firstly, Iago uses Brabantio love for his daughter and racist nature for his own gain. Brabantio enormous love for Desdemona and his protectiveness made him one of the first victims to manipulated by Iago. His expectation about how his daughter only deserves the best made him vulnerable to Iago’s crude and aggressive speech which further only enlarged his anger and hatred towards Othello for taking advantage of his daughter and stealing her from her lavish life. Zounds, sir, you’re robb’d; for shame

attempt to exact revenge is to wake up Desdemona's father Brabantio and inform him of her elopement with the Moor. Roderigo: Here's where he lives. I'll call out. Hey, Brabantio! Signor Brabantio! Iago: Wake up, Brabantio! There're thieves!

Desdemona and the Moor, Othello, and their secret elopement. With this sudden marriage comes harsh backlash from her father, Brabantio and her admirer, Roderigo. When Brabantio hears word that she has married the Moor and has run away to live with him, he sets out to find the Moor and try to discover how he “enchanted” her and made Desdemona fall in love with him. Brabantio says, “Thou hast practised on her with foul charms,” (92) meaning that he believed that he must have used some kind of black

angry as Iago has not informed him that Desdemona has eloped with Othello, a black general hired by the city of Venice to protect it from the Turks. Iago has been apparently helping Roderigo win Desdemona's, daughter of the rich merchant Brabantio, heart, in return for money 'Iago, who hast had my purse As if the strings were thine'. The audience is already taken by surprise as Othello, the protagonist who they are

heard the news that Desdemona, Brabantio’s daughter, is getting married to Othello, a military general. Brabantio is infuriated after Iago and Roderigo told him the news of Desdemona’s marriage, because Othello was what was called a Moor. In this scene, it is also shown that Iago is furious with the decision by Othello to appoint Michael Cassio as a lieutenant instead of Iago. Iago and Brabantio both have several different and

A brief moment later when Brabantio returns to his bedroom window and shouts out in despair, “It is too true evil. Gone she is, and what’s to come of my despiséd time is naught but bitterness” (1.1.178-180). Iago states that Othello has abducted and is raping Desdemona, “Even now,

Brabantio is very extreme and aggravated in asking the Duke about Othello. While still being angry, Brabantio is also very perplexed as to why Desdemona would fall in love with Othello, an intimidating Moor. Even though his irritation can be seen as an overreaction, all in all Brabantio is being protective and cautious for his daughter. Much of Brabantio’s words are actually just talking about

animalism to change Brabantio’s perception of Othello. In the play, Othello is the highly respected general of Venice and Iago is his third in command. Brabantio is a Venetian senator and a friend of Othello’s. When Iago doesn’t get the position of second in command because of Othello, he plots to change Brabantio’s perception of him so that Brabantio will turn against him. He starts by waking him up from his slumber and telling him that “Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white