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This 6 page paper analyzes the role of Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello. Specific examples, quotes and analysis given. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Desdemona so that as the play progresses one is able to gain a full view of Desdemona. This also serves doubly as the reader, audience feels her betrayal all the
more when she dies by Othellos hand. One of the first views of Desdemona is from that of a spurned lover, Roderigo. He and Iago make their way in the
first scene to Desdemonas fathers house to tell him that his house has been robbed. While there Roderigo makes mention of his unrequited love for Desdemona, but Iago, using the
crudest language possible, insinuates that Desdemona has shamed herself and her family. "an old black ram is tupping your white ewe"(Shakespeare, Act I, sc I, li 88-89). Brabantio is Desdemonas
father and as such would have taken great offense to such a remark. What one can gather from this early banter, then, is that Desdemona has wed Othello without her
fathers permission showing that she may be given to impulse, and certainly given to bouts of independence and assertiveness(Bradley 1905). From Brabantio one gains another perspective. Though he is
upset with his daughter, he also speaks well of her. He confesses to Roderigo and Iago that he has perhaps indulged her too much and that it has been so
very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone like Roderigo, but he states
his unwavering love for his daughter, even if her actions have upset him. "Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters minds, by what you see them act. Are there not
charms by which the property of youth and maidenhood may be abused?"(Shakespeare Act 1, Sc.1). In Act II the audience gains another view of Desdemona, which shows her to
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