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Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish Venetian military prodigy. When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the Republic of Venice , Desdemona accompanies him.
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello (/ ɒˈθɛloʊ /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603. Set in Venice and Cyprus, the play depicts the Moorish military commander Othello as he is manipulated by his ensign, Iago, into suspecting his wife Desdemona of infidelity.
Desdemona kocha męża i jest mu wierna i szczerze oddana. Jednak pełen nienawiści do Otella Jago zawiązuje intrygę, w wyniku której Maur nabiera przekonania, że żona zdradza go z jego zaufanym podkomendnym – Michałem Kasjem.
Desdemona is a character in Shakespeare’s Othello. She is one of the most pitiable victims in all of Shakespeare’s plays. A devoted, loving wife, she is murdered by her husband in a fit of jealous rage.
Like the audience, Desdemona seems able only to watch as her husband is driven insane with jealousy. Though she maintains to the end that she is “guiltless,” Desdemona also forgives her husband (V.ii. 133). Her forgiveness of Othello may help the audience to forgive him as well.
When Emilia's husband Iago sees Desdemona's handkerchief, he steals it and forbids Emilia to disclose its whereabouts to Desdemona. Iago plants the article in Cassio's room. Eventually, Othello sees Cassio with the handkerchief and accepts it as confirmation of Desdemona's infidelity.
Othello: Lover and husband. The difficulty for an audience comes in accepting Othello as a perfect wooer, lover and husband, partly because Othello married Desdemona in secret – a covert act that sits uncomfortably with Othello’s protestation that he has nothing to hide after the marriage.
