Does Othello Love Desdemona

Would you kill your significant other because your friend suggested they were cheating? In a marriage trust is everything, therefore solid evidence of your spouse cheating would need to be an obligation before ending the commitment. Desdemona is loyal to Othello throughout their entire marriage, he should have trusted her over Iago. Othello seems to be a better friend than husband as he is trustworthy of Iago’s lies. He is devoted to Iago’s plan and decides that he will go through with the killing of his own wife. Jealousy cannot over power genuine love, therefore Othello doesn’t love Desdemona, however he simply loves how much affection she has for his struggles. Othello doesn’t deserve sympathy because he doesn’t know how to genuinely love

Even with the impression that Desdemona is cheating, it doesn’t justify Othello physically putting his hands her. Iago uses Othello’s jealousy to an advantage is when Cassio suspiciously hurries away from Desdemona in result of seeing Othello and Iago enter the room. While Cassio and Desdemona are talking they see Othello and Iago enter, therefore Cassio decides he should leave to avoid any awkwardness, however Iago takes this opportunity to make it seem as if Cassio leaving is something it’s not at all. When Othello tries to confirm that it was Cassio who rushed off, Iago sneakily replies “Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it/ That he would steal away so guilty-like/ Seeing

Othello is enraged when he finds out that Desdemona lost his handkerchief, a sign of her loyalty. “That’s a fault. That handkerchief/ Did an Egyptian to my mother give,/ She was a charmer and could almost read/ The thoughts of people. She told her, while she kept it/ “Twould make her amiable and subdue my father/ Entirely to her love, but if she lost it/ Or made gift of it, my father’s eye/ Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt/ After new fancies. She, dying, gave it to me/ And bid me, when my fate would have me wived,/ To give it to her.”(3,4,56-65). Othello believes that the handkerchief means she is his and is loyal to him, but once she loses it, she