Othello And Desdemona Relationship Analysis

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In the play Othello, written by William Shakespeare, Othello is portrayed as a man who has found the love of his life. He is quite confident and taken with Desdemona and it is apparent to the audience of the play that Othello and Desdemona love each other dearly. However, as the play progresses problems arise in the once chaste and loving relationship.
Early on in the play, the couple was very in love and anyone could see that. Othello speaks to the Duke about how he and Desdemona met and how they shall never part from each other because of how in love they are.
Othello says,:

What Othello is saying here is that Desdemona loved Othello for who he was, even though she knew of his past. Desdemona swore that she would love him forever, and if he had a friend who loved Desdemona as well, then he would teach him how to woo her because she deserves the best. He is trying to convey to Desdemona’s father that their love is real and that he did not use trickery to woo her.
However, as the play progresses, the audience sees Othello beginning to not trust Desdemona. Iago, who it seems does not have a trust worthy bone in his body, starts a cruel rumor about Cassio and Desdemona. According to what Iago has been spreading around, Desdemona is not being chaste or pure and is cheating on Othello with Cassio. However, the audience knows this to be a lie because there was never any encounter between Cassio and Desdemona to suggest unfaithfulness. The reason that Iago spreads this rumor is because he is suspicious that his wife is cheating on him with Othello, and he wants to get back at him.
Othello starts to hear that his wife is not being chaste and becomes more and more suspicious. He starts to believe Iago over Desdemona, which lea...

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Throughout this play, the audience is shown how Othello progresses as a man in love then as a man full of jealousy. He starts out as a man who would do anything for the woman he desperately loves. It is obvious that the couple is infatuated with each other and that neither partner would ever commit such a crime as being unfaithful. But, once spiteful Iago plants the lie and rumor, Othello changes. Love has changed him for the worse because in the end, Othello trusted his “honest, best friend,” over his wife. It would seem that there might have been trust issues in the beginning of the lovers’ relationship because Othello changed his mind about Desdemona quite quickly. In many relationships, love can change a man from bad to good or from good to bad. However, in this depressing case, love changed Othello from trustworthy and devoted to malicious and bitter.

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