Desdemona's Love In Othello

There were only two things keeping Othello with the people of Venice as a black man and those are having the opportunity to be the husband of Desdemona and also being there as the general of the army. In addition, the fact that Desdemona confirmed and expresses her love for Othello before her father and the Duke strengthens Othello as well.

Although Desdemona demonstrated how she loved Othello in front of the Duke and the Barbantio the father, Iago still felt no matter how far the couple have reached, Othello’s color does not permit him to posses such a beautiful wife from a good home, hence decided to find every way to break the couple’s marriage. Iago started putting fear in the senator about Othello’s personality since he is a black man; Sex in marriage is a good thing which brings pleasure to both couples but on the part of Othello, Iago made sex look like a crime and pointed it out to Barbantio that sexually Othello is going to use his daughter badly and after the sex her daughter cannot look at the face of Othello. He went on using the nature of sex to threaten the heart of Barbantio. According to Iago since Desdemona has been brought up in a way that she is afraid of foreigners precisely blacks, how come Desdemona is he going to have sex with someone whom she is frightened

He kills himself because he has nothing to lose. The two important things that make him powerful in this society have come to an end, so he kills himself because without these two things, he is castrated and his life is meaningless. Othello says before he stabs himself: I have done the state some service, and they know 't. No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought. (5.2.