Desdemona's Father

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In Othello Act one, Othello retells how and why did Desdemona fall in love with him by saying because of his story and how he overcame those hardships throughout his childhood. According to Othello, it started off as telling his stories to Desdemona’s father as the father would question him about his past and struggles. For example, when Othello recalls, “ Would Desdemona seriously incline … She’Id come again with a greedy ear devour up my discourse: [...] and often did beguile her of her tears, when I did speak of some distressful stroke that my youth suffer’d. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:“ (Act 1, Pg. 37, Lines 14-22). This could have been the beginning of Desdemona and Othello’s story as Othello began

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