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The quote shows that Desdemona is so virtuous she cannot even understand why a woman would betray her husband. Desdemona’s innocence is part of her undoing because she never stops to think about how her behavior might appear to someone who is viewing it with suspicion.
- Desdemona
Since her first lines, Desdemona has seemed capable of...
- Desdemona
Othello, Act 3, Scene 3. Desdemona assures Cassio that she can help heal the rift in the friendship between him and her husband. At this point in her marital relationship, she is confident that she has the power to persuade Othello to mend fences with Cassio.
Here, Othello asserts his faith in Desdemona and his refusal to be suspicious of her without due cause. The quote shows that Othello does love his wife and does not want to think ill of her. However, Othello’s faith in Desdemona also opens the door for Iago to give Othello seeming “proof” of Desdemona’s infidelity.
Since her first lines, Desdemona has seemed capable of meeting or even rising above those demands. In the end, Othello stifles the speech that made Desdemona so powerful. Tragically, Desdemona is apparently aware of her imminent death.
A bedchamber in the castle: DESDEMONA in bed asleep. [Enter OTHELLO] OTHELLO. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,--. Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!--. It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster.
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By means of brilliant machination, evil dissimulation, and luck, he implants in Othello's mind the thought that Desdemona, Othello's bride, is unfaithful to him with Cassio.
