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When her husband is deployed to Cyprus in the service of the Republic of Venice, Desdemona accompanies him. There, her husband is manipulated by his ensign Iago into believing she is an adulteress, and, in the last act, she is murdered by her estranged spouse.
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.
Othello appears and, then being convinced by Iago of his wife's unfaithfulness with his captain, vows with Iago for the death of Desdemona and Cassio, after which he makes Iago his lieutenant.
Tragically, Desdemona is apparently aware of her imminent death. She, not Othello, asks Emilia to put her wedding sheets on the bed, and she asks Emilia to bury her in these sheets should she die first.
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.
After Cassio's fall from grace, she advocates for his reinstatement, which leads her husband to believe Iago's false claims of her infidelity. Tragically, Othello ends up murdering her.
In this video, actor Hugh Quarshie describes Othello as a very assured and confident man at the start of the play who is ‘completed’ by his marriage to Desdemona. One of the key questions for this character is: What persuades Othello to murder Desdemona? We’ve started to think below about some of the things that persuade him.
