Olivia In Othello

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Excerpt #9 Sebastian is consoling Olivia after she realizes that the “Cesario” that she fell in love with is, in fact, Viola disguised in the final scene of the play in Act Five. When Sebastian says, “But nature to her bias drew in that”, he is telling Olivia that since she fell in love with Olivia, he could find his presumed dead sister. He’s also being grateful for nature itself for having both Olivia realize that she was about to marry someone of

the same sex and Sebastian find his sister. The last few lines are Sebastian explaining to Olivia that if she would’ve married the person she loved, she would have ended up marrying a maiden. After that, he says, “Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived. / But that’s not completely wrong. I’m …show more content…

Desdemona makes it clear that if there was another person with a similar story or another individual comparable to him that she would still fall in love with them. This statement from the words of Desdemona clearly affirms her Othello in a way to would be able to just fabricate. This vivid and organic way of describing her love for Othello shows just how much she loves him and how devoted she is in being with Othello. Othello goes on to say that she spoke to her after she stated this declaration of love and she said that she loves him for all of the hard trials he’s been through and that he loved her back for how dedicated she is to him. These extremely strong, clear, and authentic professions of love for each other contradicts Brabantio thinking that Desdemona could only fall in love with Othello by the use of witchcraft and show just how misguided and pathetic he is in thinking this. This excerpt is another moment that touches on Othello’s immense theme of race and racialism. In excerpt #6, Brabantio is nagging to the Duke about his daughter falling in love with Othello and only understanding this if she were only to be influenced by witchcraft. This excerpt just shows erroneous Brabantio is in that excerpt by

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