Desdemona

=**DESDEMONA**=


 * Desdemona** is one of the main characters in the play //Othello// by William Shakespeare. Her role in the play is as Othello's wife, and the daughter [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Desdemona_othello.jpg width="200" align="right" caption="Desdemona by Frederic Leighton" link="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Desdemona_othello.jpg"]]of Senator Barbantio

Desdemona is a very complex character however in the first act she is only found on 3 pages. Desdemona is very respectful to her father and to all elders around her such as the Duke. She never went to school, but was taught by her own father Barbanito. In Scene 3, she shows us that she will stand next to her husband Othello no matter what. She loves him no matter the color of his skin or what he does with his life as a Moor. She quite envies the stories that Othello tells her about his travels around the world. She uses this excuse to allow her to stay married to Othello for she loves him and will be nothing less than his wife. Desdemona feels that Othello is the best quality man that she could find in the lands and feels that his love is like a storm that took her by force, but on her own will. Desdemona sees past the racism that everyone else puts on Othello for being a Moor and a darker man. Her pleading with the Duke shows us that she is very deeply in love with Othello and would rather die than not be his wife.