Background- Lives in Cyprus, She has been to Venice, and Italy.
Description- Naive, Young, Beautiful, Trustworthy, and she is the daughtor of the Senator.
Values- Loyal and faithful to her husband Othello.
Family- Father is Senator Brabantio, Mother is unknown, and Husband is General Othello.
Description- Naive, Young, Beautiful, Trustworthy, and she is the daughtor of the Senator.
Values- Loyal and faithful to her husband Othello.
Family- Father is Senator Brabantio, Mother is unknown, and Husband is General Othello.
Love: Desdemona fell in love and married Othello. Desdemona describes her love to Othello to her dad in
Act I Scene 2 Page 8, "My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of duty. I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband. And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.(Othello)"
Jealousy: Desdemona has never been jealous because she has everything she could ever want.
Racism: Desdemona is pure and see people for who they are and by not the color of there skin.
Women: Desdemona see all women obediante to their husbands and believes that they will never cheat of them, in Act 4, Scene 3, Page 3 Desdemona says to Emilia, "I have heard it said so. Oh, these men, these men! Dost thou in conscience think—tell me, Emilia— That there be women do abuse their husbands In such gross kind?(Othello)"
Reputation: Desdemona is a loving and faithful wife to her husband, and does whatever her husband commands, throughout the whole story.
Seeming/ Being: Many people see Desdemona as a pure and innocent wife of the General Othello.
Emilia sees Desdemona as a young and naive girl.
Roderigo sees Desdemona as his lover and wife to be, in Act 1, Scene 3, Page 14 Iago convinces Roderigo by giving him money he will get Desdemona to love him by saying,"It cannot be long that Desdemona should continue her love to the Moor—put money in thy purse—nor he his to her. It was a violent commencement in her, and thou shalt see an answerable sequestration—put but money in thy purse. These Moors are changeable in their wills—fill thy purse with money. The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She must change for youth. When she is sated with his body she will find the errors of her choice. Therefore, put money in thy purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money thou canst. If sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian and supersubtle Venetian be not too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her. Therefore make money. A pox of drowning thyself! 'Tis clean out of the way. Seek thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than to be drowned and go without her.(Othello)"
Iago sees Desdemona as a pawn to bring down Othello, in Act I Scene 3 Page 15 Iago say, "after some time, to abuse Othello’s ear That he is too familiar with his wife. He hath a person and a smooth dispose To be suspected, framed to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, And will as tenderly be led by th' nose As asses are. I have ’t. It is engendered! Hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light.(Othello)"
Othello sees Desdemona as an adulterer when Iago shows proof of Cassio has his mothers hankerchief, in Act 4, Scene 1, Page 8 Iago confronts Cassio about his time with Bianca while Othello is hidden, and thinks Cassio is talking about Desdemona. Then Bianca shows up and give Cassio Othello's hankerchief back to Cassio.
Act I Scene 2 Page 8, "My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of duty. I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband. And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.(Othello)"
Jealousy: Desdemona has never been jealous because she has everything she could ever want.
Racism: Desdemona is pure and see people for who they are and by not the color of there skin.
Women: Desdemona see all women obediante to their husbands and believes that they will never cheat of them, in Act 4, Scene 3, Page 3 Desdemona says to Emilia, "I have heard it said so. Oh, these men, these men! Dost thou in conscience think—tell me, Emilia— That there be women do abuse their husbands In such gross kind?(Othello)"
Reputation: Desdemona is a loving and faithful wife to her husband, and does whatever her husband commands, throughout the whole story.
Seeming/ Being: Many people see Desdemona as a pure and innocent wife of the General Othello.
Emilia sees Desdemona as a young and naive girl.
Roderigo sees Desdemona as his lover and wife to be, in Act 1, Scene 3, Page 14 Iago convinces Roderigo by giving him money he will get Desdemona to love him by saying,"It cannot be long that Desdemona should continue her love to the Moor—put money in thy purse—nor he his to her. It was a violent commencement in her, and thou shalt see an answerable sequestration—put but money in thy purse. These Moors are changeable in their wills—fill thy purse with money. The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She must change for youth. When she is sated with his body she will find the errors of her choice. Therefore, put money in thy purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money thou canst. If sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian and supersubtle Venetian be not too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her. Therefore make money. A pox of drowning thyself! 'Tis clean out of the way. Seek thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than to be drowned and go without her.(Othello)"
Iago sees Desdemona as a pawn to bring down Othello, in Act I Scene 3 Page 15 Iago say, "after some time, to abuse Othello’s ear That he is too familiar with his wife. He hath a person and a smooth dispose To be suspected, framed to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, And will as tenderly be led by th' nose As asses are. I have ’t. It is engendered! Hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light.(Othello)"
Othello sees Desdemona as an adulterer when Iago shows proof of Cassio has his mothers hankerchief, in Act 4, Scene 1, Page 8 Iago confronts Cassio about his time with Bianca while Othello is hidden, and thinks Cassio is talking about Desdemona. Then Bianca shows up and give Cassio Othello's hankerchief back to Cassio.