Othello And Desdemona's Death Analysis

Readers often found the difference of the death in the characters of Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice and Benn’s Oroonoko. Shakespeare wrote Othello in 1603 and the play was published in 1622. During Behn's lifetime, Oroonoko was not well known however it is her most profoundly respect work. It additionally impact the advancement of the English novel by building up the female narrator voice. I will start by giving a brief summary that leaded to Othello’s death than leaded in to Oroonoko’s death. After that, I will make a comparison and evaluate their death. As readers, we know that Behn knew the story of Othello as she revises the ending, I will explain of why she might have revised the ending and the matter of those changes. In Othello and Oroonoko, their death differs from each other in conjunction with Desdomona’s death differs from Imoinda’s death.

He planted the seeds of doubt about Desdemona's faithfulness in Othello's head. After multiples of calculated lies and planted evidences of Desdemona's infidelity by Iago, Othello arrived at her bedroom to kill her with a pillow. He got interrupted when Emilia knocked on the door and draws the curtain to hide Desdemona. When Emilia discovered Desdemona, she and Othello confronted each other. Othello explained to her that Iago knows about Desdemona's affair and how he is honest. At first, she is surprised at her husband. When Iago, Montano and Gratiano appeared as they heard Emilia shouting, she’d then started to explain to Othello of Iago's plot by finding the handkerchief that he had asked her to steal and give it to him. Othello figured out the truth that Iago tricked and manipulated him. He stabs himself that lead to his death as he depicts of throwing Desdemona