Loyalty In Othello's Loyalty

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Where is your Loyalty? Othello is a play based on a woman named Desdemona who marries Othello against her father’s wishes. Her father Brabantio tells Othello “ Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceived her father, and my thee.” Meaning if she has lied and went against my wishes, then she most likely will you in the end. So ultimately when the handkerchief Othello had given Desdemona when they got married came up missing, he remembered what Brabantio had told him that day. He instantly does not trust her and believes she is messing around with Cassio, which is Othello’s Lieutenant. Othello plans Desdemona’s death, he smothers her with a pillow until she is barely breathing. All of a sudden there is a knock at the door. It is Emilia, Desdemona’s waiting gentlewoman. She comes in to tell Othello that there has been a murder outside …show more content…

A Christian Moor perhaps, he’s respected by those around him. He possesses a “ free and open nature “. He goes from being a confident man with a beautiful wife to a raging jealous, vengeful husband who plots his own wife’s murder and commits it himself. I do not feel Othello was a loyal husband like he expected Desdemona to be. Desdemona did everything Othello wanted her to do and more. She stood by his side and went against her own father for him. But when Othello hears a few simple rumors or should I say stories. He instantly believes them, he does not go to his wife and talk with her about what he has been told. He just assumes and makes the choice to kill her. If you ask me, that does not sound like a very loyal, trustworthy husband to me. If he really loved her the way he proclaimed then she should have been the first person he spoke to, or better yet he shouldn’t have even believed any of the stories in the first place. Anyone could see how much Desdemona loved Othello, so he should have seen the same in her! He should have trusted her and believed in his wife to not do such

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