Desdemona (/ˌdɛzdəˈmoʊnə/) is a character in William Shakespeare’s play Othello (c. 1601–1604). Shakespeare’s Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish man several years her senior.

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The character’s origin is traced to the tale “Un Capitano Moro” in Gli Hecatommithi by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio. There, he is simply referred to as the Moor. Othello is a brave and competent soldier of advanced years and Moorish background in the service of the Venetian Republic.

When, at the end of the play, Othello views himself as a Turk, he ratifies European perceptions of the treacherous and destructive Mus- lim Other at the same time that he draws the audience’s attention to the religion of the Other to which both Turk and Moor are historically and culturally linked.

Chiwetel Ejiofor. Mekhi Phifer. Distinguished black thespians have portrayed one of Shakespeare’s most famed and widely depicted characters for years. But paving the way for those acting legends nearly 200 years ago was Ira Aldridge, the first black actor to breathe life into the Othello role.

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Iago is the play’s main antagonist, and Othello’s standard-bearer. He is the husband of Emilia, who is in turn the attendant of Othello’s wife Desdemona. Iago hates Othello and devises a plan to destroy him by making him believe that his wife is having an affair with his lieutenant, Michael Cassio.

Iago is misogynistic. But a historicist reading could examine his depiction of women as a product of his time and culture. The Jacobean view of Venetian women, in particular the idea that they were sexually immoral compounds how credible Roderigo, and Othello, find Iago’s portrayal of Desdemona.

Iago uses his reputation as an honest man to deceive others and manipulate them to satisfy his needs. Iago makes people believe his claims by reminding them on multiple occasions of his honesty either by saying, “I am an honest man” (Othello II.

Iago manipulates Othello into believing his wife Desdemona is unfaithful, stirring Othello’s jealousy. Othello allows jealousy to consume him, murders Desdemona, and then kills himself.

Having been mistakenly told that Desdemona is having an affair with his lieutenant Cassio, Othello repeatedly verbally abuses Desdemona in sexual terms – he calls her a public whore, a commoner, a strumpet and a devil. Othello kills Desdemona by smothering her with pillows in their matrimonial bed.

In the last scene of the play, 5.2, Brabantio’s brother Graziano states that Brabantio died of grief after losing his daughter to Othello.

By his own admission, Desdemona fell in love with Othello’s bravery and for surviving many sorrows and tribulations. Othello, in turn, loves the fact that she admires him. From his point of view, he has a loving, obedient wife who admires his ability to endure dangers.

Trapped by Iago, Othello comes to believe that his wife is unfaithful to him. He thinks he must kill her to prevent her further adultery. At her death Desdemona tells a lie that she had killed herself. Her lie is a lie of love and sheds light on the whole story, making it noble and dignified.

Cassio is a gentlemanly Florentine soldier, a man of high manners and theoretical learning, and one of Othello’s chief lieutenants. There is a supposed rivalry between Cassio and the play’s villain, Iago.

Othello is the tragic protagonist of the story. The play revolves around his corruption by Iago and his descent into a dangerous jealousy.

Iago then withdraws himself, although Roderigo asks him not to go too far in case he needs help killing Cassio. Cassio enters, and Roderigo stabs at him but fails to pierce Cassio’s armor. Cassio stabs and wounds Roderigo. Iago darts out in the commotion, stabs Cassio in the leg, and exits.

Othello won Desdemona’s love by telling her stories of his past adventures. Desdemona chooses to go with her husband to Cyprus and feels loyalty to him over her father.

Though Othello says that he is not accomplished as a public speaker (‘Rude am I in my speech’), the speech strikes one as that of a person who does have oratorical skills and who knows how to be persuasive with words. It is chiefly sentence structure and rhythms which create this impression.

Actually, with the world being updated to 2019, I do think it works. virtuous Desdemona has sneaked out of the house and gone by gondola to meet Othello (121). Cassio arrives with orders for Othello: Othello is to meet with the duke and senators of Venice about a Turkish invasion of the Venetian colony of Cyprus.

Othello kills Desdemona and Iago kills his wife Emilia as she discloses the reality about Iago’s evilness. Othello kills himself after he knows about Iago’s treachery. As a result, all the happiness, peace and love in the families of Othello and Iago get spoilt completely because of just jealousy upon each other.

Iago uses Desdemona to push Othello over the edge in jealousy and in rage by lying about her unfaithfulness to him. Iago uses misleading situations to his advantage by implement- ing false reasons for why characters would act in such a way, specif- ically with Desdemona.

The play ends in a spectacle of tragic violence: Emilia intercepts Othello after he’s murdered Desdemona and reveals Iago’s treachery. Othello’s suicide serves as a kind of trial in which he decides on and enacts a punishment for his crime of killing Desdemona.