Desdemona's Love In Othello

Doomed from the start or unlucky beyond belief is what the name Desdemona means. If the readers looked this up, then this would be a hint as to what happens at the end of the play. Othello is a story that is filled with scandal and betrayal. Most of these topics are passed around each character, but they stand out between Desdemona and her new husband Othello. Othello and Desdemona are partly at fault for their failed marriage, but Iago is the main reason that their marriage ended.
The beginning of Othello and Desdemona’s marriage was over before it began. Othello is a play where the marriage of Othello and Desdemona is sabotaged by a scheming best friend named Iago. First of all, readers need to realize that Othello is a man who has been
He is insecure of his job, his life, and feels like an outsider from not being a Venetian like some of the other characters in this play. Ironically, Desdemona’s and Othello are -or they were- fairly good friends and Othello was invited into their home multiple times. When Brabantio finds out about his daughters marriage, of course he is hurt, but he feels betrayed by Othello. He assumes that his daughter must have been drugged to make her fall in love with him and Brabantio calls for the couple to explain. Keep in mind that Othello and Desdemona are deeply in love and they just got married. Both Othello and Desdemona know that her father didn’t want the marriage and he wanted to prove his worthiness by respectfully standing up to Brabantio, but he called for his wife so she could convince him that their marriage is, in fact, real. In this time period, it was considered reckless to marry for love, so the parents- in this case, Brabantio alone- tended to choose the spouse for their child. Of course Desdemona doesn’t want this, so when she says “But here’s my