Othello and Desdemona Essay -- Literary Analysis, Shakespeare, Marriag

In Shakespeares Othello, Othello and Desdemonas marriage was doomed from the start. They did not start well their marriage was controversial because of their race and Othellos failure to meet proper etiquette while he was courting her. However these issues could have been overcome with time. The biggest problem is Othellos attitude to Desdemona. Othellos model of Desdemona prevents him from considering her a person. He thinks of her kind of 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. She becomes untouchable in Othellos mind, and he begins to quad himself from her. Because Othello thinks of Desdemona as Alabaster(5.2.5) he will never consider her capable of responding to his love.Because Othello is at his wits end when he refers to her as Alabaster, he is speaking out of his heart. When Othello receives a letter from Venice informing him that he is to return home and leave Casio in command of Cyprus h e is greatly enraged. As a result he loses his grip on sanity and begins to speak in less cohesive manner. Take the line, Pish Noses, ears, and lips. Isnt Possible? Confess hanky O devil(4.1.42) contains none of Othellos former eloquence. He begins to speak with word association, rather than in complete sentences. The word confess brings up the word Handkerchief, and devil. Because Desdemona, the handkerchief, and the sense of maliciousness were on his mind so much, he begins to express with abstract words and ideas instead of sentences. Although this makes his lines harder to read, they show us what he is incessantly thinking of. Instead of clear and concise lines, they are a torrent of his true feelings. In the... ... Because of his high view of her, he creates a complex of his ingest insignificance. From his point of view, Desdemona is unable to love him because she is too elemental to have emotion.Othello has, put simply, encased Desdemona in alabaster. He has formed an opini on of her from which she is unable to break free. Because he has so strongly locked her into this state of mind he is unable to think of him in any other way. She is so high up on the al-Qaida that he puts her on that he is unable to see who she truly is. This is Othellos failing. By making her too powerful, too divine, any minor fault is a glaring defect to her immaculate surface. Then at the first flaw, she becomes low and nothing, and he needs to return her to her former glory. He must Quench thee and again they former light restore(5.2.9). He fails to see her love through her alabaster covering.