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In Shakespeare’s play, Othello, an intense human relationship that is most evident through the whole course of the play is Othello’s and Desdemona’s. THESIS The relationship between Desdemona and Othello is a centrepiece of destruction which leads to the plays downfall and exposure of character’s’ weaknesses. Their relationship starts off with an intense passion and affection for each other, then as the play progresses and Iago introduces

The relationship between Othello and Desdemona is first and for mostly a recipe for disaster. The contrast of, age, gender, race and hierarchical status explore not only the dangers of their relationship but also the true love that both Desdemona and Othello have for each other. The whole ordeal of the elopement serves to indicate the fact that there must be a strong bond between the two characters. Desdemona and Othello both lost extremely good reputations. The intensity of this element in their relationship captures the audience and highlights their dramatic love for each other. Iago is the antagonist and sets the downfall and destruction in the play of their relationship through manipulation of Othello. Desdemona stays loyal to Othello and disregards their difference. Her father first calls her unblemished reputation of loyalty into question when Othello is brought to the Senate chamber to declare and make a statement of his love for Desdemona in front of her father, Brabantio, the Senate and men in the military. As Othello calls upon Desdemona after his speech to the men I the chamber, Desdemona declares a love parallel to that of Othello’s. Desdemona is portrayed as a woman who is braved and determined to make her marriage work despite popular opinion. Shakespeare uses the technique of foreshadowing when Brabantio says ‘She has deceived her father and may thee,’ how Iago will turn the nature of the relationship against them. The significance of this scene is to show the audience the captivated love that is held between