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According to Webster, personality is the combination of qualities or characteristics that form an individuals’ character. Personality says a whole lot about someone. Every person has their own personality. Your personality triggers your behavior in every situation. In the play, all the characters have special personalities, but I will only elaborate on three of them. The three characters I will speak on are Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca. They all have very interesting roles and personalities in the play. Their relationships have a great impact on their behavior in the play.
Desdemona is one of the few special characters. Desdemona is the daughter of Brabantio. She is a very defiant character when it comes to her fathers’ expectations and the society’s wishes on interracial marriage. Her father hopes that she marries a white man that he approves of, but she does not want that. Instead she chose to marry Othello, who is a black, older man. Despite public opinion, Desdemona does not let that stop her from marrying Othello. In the beginning of the play, Desdemona shows that she is all about excitement. She enjoys the adventurous stories that Othello shares with her about his past. When he is called to go on duty for the military, she tries her best to convince him to let her come along. She tried to go with him because she likes the action and she finds staying at home very boring. Desdemona also likes taking part in sexual activities with her husband. Another reason she wants to go with him when he goes on duty is because of her sexual attraction to him. She wants it so desperately that she asks Emilia is it okay for her to cheat. Desdemona also plays the role of a victim in the play. I say this because Othello abuses her in public ...
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...alty, but the three of them still choose to stay married to them. They are all different because each of them reacts differently towards their husband. Desdemona is really a faithful woman to Othello, but is just constantly being accused of being unfaithful. It seems as if she can be as innocent as can be but there is always something that occurs to make her look bad. Emilia just does not think for herself. She does whatever Iago tells her to do even when it hurts her friends. She lets him take control over her mind. She is not loyal to her friends, but she is loyal to Iago, although he does not deserve it. Lastly, Bianca. Bianca is just so sprung over Cassio that it makes her look crazy. She wants them to be something that will never happen. Cassio is not trying to marry her. She is also loyal but because he does not want her it just makes her look delusional.
Othello is a play that asks us to examine the position of women in society. This play explores issues such as clandestine marriage, accusations of adultery, and it includes three different social classes of women. First, we have Desdemona, this is a woman from a noble family in Venice and has the least amount of freedom. Her behavior was watched very carefully. The perception of Desdemona is created by the language that other characters use to describe her. In Act 2, Scene 1, Cassio refers to Desdemona as ‘a maid/That paragons description and wild fame’; that she
This shows the audience that Desdemona may be smothered as a woman and not allowed to make her own decisions, which would explain her leaving her house. When he checks her room and finds she is gone, the audience can see that this is quite a rebellious woman. As a first impression, this leaves the audience wanting to hear more about this feisty and supposedly brave woman. She sounds like a woman who does what she feels like, but also, since she left without her father’s knowledge, she could be highly deceiving. We then find out that she is married to Othello, which also adds to secret... ...
Dual Nature of Characters in Othello Many of the characters in Shakespeare's tragedy, Othello, are duplicitous to the extent that how. they are perceived in public is not how they behave in private. The perception of the public plays.
Desdemona acts contrary to these plans by choosing to marry Othello who is a Moor, not a Venetian, which automatically lowers his stature. He is also an army general; he does not have a lot of money, only some prestige. In addition, he is old - he could be Desdemona's father nearly; in fact, he is Brabantio's friend. Army life would keep him (and her) out of Venice, and prevent Brabantio from seeing his daughter, or future grandchildren. Consequently, Brabantio is extremely upset when he learns that they have eloped.
Othello is a man of romantic nature. He fell in love with the beautiful Desdemona. He was accused of stealing her away from her father. Othello was of a different race and did not fit in with her family. Othello makes a plea for Desdemona and tells his story which wooed her to begin with. Othello tells of the love that her father showed him since his boyish days. This was like a match made in heaven that overcame many obstacles which got in their way. Othello could not understand why he was good enough to work and fight alongside of her father, but was not good enough for his daughter.
In Othello, Desdemona is the embodiment of the perfect female: obedient and graceful. However, this obedience to marriage and to her husband is what causes her eventual death. She does not fight for her right to live because society dictates that she should be completely subservient to men. Because of how society views women, Desdemona has to shift the blame to herself rather than her husband. This is because she, as a woman, is in the wrong as she must only be a servant to man.
In Greek, Desdemona means ‘the unfortunate’, perhaps reflecting an ideology that she is not meant to be liked, merely pitied for her misfortune as a tragic victim (commonly defined as someone who dies due to the faults of others). Throughout Othello, Desdemona is presented as pure and innocent – in regards to this, Auden’s comment is unusual as Desdemona is seldom criticised; indeed many critics are complementary, giving her titles such as ‘gentle Desdemona’.
Desdemona is one of the protagonists of the play contributes to the play and also fleshes out certain aspects of characterisation mainly where Othello and Iago are concerned. Thus her relevance is highlighted consistently throughout Othello, since without her ppresence, Iago would not have succeeded in manipulating Othello, and Othello's drastic transformation would not have been made evident.
As the details of her recent marriage to Othello unfold, Desdemona appears to be a woman driven by emotions. She marries a man because he has shared his stories of grand adventure. In order to do so, she elopes from her loving father’s house in the middle of the night. These seem like actions of emotion stemming from her love – or possibly infatuation – for Othello. Contradictory to this, when asked to speak about her willingness to enter the marriage, she responds with a very clear and sensible reason for staying with Othello:
Although Desdemona is a prideful woman, Othello falls in love with her and loves her jealously. Desdemona, daughter of a Venetian senator, lives in her father’s household. Her father, Brabantio,
One of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, Othello, lends itself to the tragic telling of Desdemona’s death by her beloved husband. Othello requires certain seemingly inconspicuous characters, such as Emilia, to carry the weight of the play forward. Emilia holds the role of Iago’s wife and notably Desdemona’s maid. She is a woman of practical intelligence in her roles Shakespeare cast her. The time of casting has a level of requirement from a woman in terms of her duty to her husband. Emilia fulfills her wifely duties to her husband, Iago, at a high degree and develops a loyalty to her mistress Desdemona. The two women counterbalance one another as Emilia speaks despairingly of men, but will support her husband as needed, while Desdemona temporarily pronounces her idealistic marriage to Othello.
Othello and Desdemona’s marriage was doomed from the start. Even considering the racial nature of the marriage, his lack of a constant home, and the improper method of his courting, there is another reason why their marriage would never have worked. Othello’s label of Desdemona prevents him from considering her a person. He thinks of her instead as superior to himself in every way, to the point that she is a god. Her race, beauty, and status make her godly in his mind. Because Othello thinks of Desdemona as “Alabaster”(5.2.5) he will never consider her capable of responding to his love.
Desdemona demonstrates weakness in her love for Othello and by taking his abuse. At the beginning of the play, Desdemona feels she must accompany Othello to Cyprus in war. This can be looked at as her being a strong woman, but she truly is not since the real reason she wants to go is because she can not be seperated from Othello. "If I be left behind A moth of peace and he go to the war, The rites for which I love him are bereft me,And I a heavy interim shall support by his dear absence. Let me go with him." (Act 1, scene 3, line 250) She feels that she loves him so much, she can not be alone or without him. This is a trait of the stereotypical damsel. When Othello hits her in public, she does not get angry with him but begins to cry. " 'Tis very much.Make her amends, she
Desdemona is portrayed as the highest class a female could accomplish. She is elegant, honest and loyal to her husband as any other good Elizabethan married woman would be. She is presented as the ideal woman. Desdemona symbolizes innocence and helplessness against men. Shakespeare presents Desdemona as a mature and knowledgeable woman for her age as she defends her love for Othello to her father, Brabantio. However this is seen differently in the eye's of the society. Brabantio declares her as "Against all rules of nature"(scene.. line...). This statement reveals what the society believes what is natural and what is unnatural. To the society, "natural" is when a women complies to their husbands and fathers wishes, but it's unnatural for a women to do anything else. Women are referred to as property, clearly stated when Desdemona's father angrily calls Othello a "theif" (scene...line..). Here, Brabantio addresses Desde...
“Personality is an abstraction used to explain consistency and coherency in an individuals’ pattern of affects, cognitions, desires and behaviors” (Revelle, n.d).According to Feist and Feist,”personality is a pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person’s behavior. Traits contribute to individual differences in behavior, consistency of behavior over time, and stability of behavior across situations. Characteristics are unique qualities of an individual; these characteristics include temperament, physique, and intelligence” (Feist and Feist, 2009).