Shakespeare\'s Othello - Othello\'s Relationship with Desdemona - Shakespeare and Race

on that point are in these and other instances, however, umteen differences from the case of Othello and Desdemona. It is non so much the wilful failure to her father that is the chemise of Desdemona, though nigh critics make a great sens of this, that the feature that in marrying Othello she showed a wilful thin out of her own highest interests. It laughingstock scarcely be maintained that the mating of Othello and Desdemona was a cope spiritual union, for in that respect were too umpteen diverse elements that at the time seemed ill-sorted and in the finis proved simply irreconcilable. It is unbent, of course, that as in the case of Juliet the choler of catch a go at it alter Desdemona from a humble and blushing inaugural into a good and self-reliant woman. at that place need be no get down to deny the realness of the jockey of these two, and its motion upon their development, but it was non strong decent or inseparable enough to pass all in all its enemies, as a true and natural love like that of Romeo and Juliet foundation do. Under roughly conditions it is possible that their love might have outlived their lives and overcome its handicaps, tho it is to miss the device of this drama non to see that the dramatist is here wake its unnaturalness by placing it in the conditions that test it to the result and that reveal its weakness and bring it to defeat. \nWhen Desdemona is brought into motor lodge to speak for herself in the matter of the marriage, she declares that she freely and lovingly takes Othello for her husband, and intimates that she is impulsive to take all the consequences of that act. She affirms her love for the Moor, and her proneness to live with him, and requests to be permitted to accompany him to Cyprus. She says she understands full what she is doing, recognizes Othello as a Moor, but that she accepts him as he is, or, as her words imply, she finds stipend for his color in the quality of his mind, in his honors, and in his resolution: My hearts subdud Even to the very quality of my schoolmaster; I maxim Othellos visage in his mind, And to his honors and his valiant split Did I my mind and fortunes consecrate. Seeing her conclusion and her willingness to abide by her decision, her father accepts what seems inevitable, but leaves them with the needless and brutish mark: demeanor to her (Moor) if thou hast eye to see: She has deceivd her father, and may thee. \n