Does Othello Love Desdemona Analysis

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In Othello, Desdemona deceived her father, losing his trust and support over her love and marriage to a Moor. Iago tells Brabantio, Desdemona’s father that Othello,the moor had kidnapped his daughter to wed her, and Brabantio hunts down Othello to confront him; disbelief from Brabantio caused Othello to order him to take him into custody to find the truth, and they invite Desdemona to admit their relationship was true, and of mutual feelings. After having his trust betrayed, Brabantio warns Othello that he too may be lied to by Desdemona and to watch her by saying, “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceived her father, and may thee”(1.3.18). Brabantio built a trust that Desdemona was nothing but loyal to him, but when she married behind his back that trust had been demolished and …show more content…

Iago set his plan into action to tell Othello of what he’s ‘observed’, that Desdemona and Cassio may be having an affair, and Othello trusts that she is faithful, but Iago suggests if she can deceive her father, why can’t she him. Othello was told not to take the information given by Iago as anything more than a suspicion, but after a night on the subject, Othello gets angry at Iago and says,”What sense had I of her stol’n hours of lust? I saw ‘t not, thought it not, it harm’d not me: I slept the next night well, was free and merry; I found not Cassio’s kisses on her lips: He that is robb’d, not wanting what is stol’n, let him not know’t and he’s not robb’d at all”(3.3.50-51). Othello’s peaceful slumber has been disrupted by what he’s been told, and his dreams have been soiled by the images and ideas of Cassio and his wife. He believes it better to not have been told and not know than to be told and be tormented by the possibility. Othello doesn’t realize his arising jealousy that will take over his trust will end his love and himself in

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