Author:William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English poet,

playwright, and actor. He was born on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Love

In Othello, love is a force that overcomes large obstacles and is tripped up by

small ones. It provides Othello with intensity but not direction and gives
Desdemona access to his heart but not his mind. Types of love and what that
means are different between different characters.

Othello finds that love in marriage needs time to build trust, and his enemy
works too quickly for him to take that time. Through Othello, we are able to see
this obsessive love, he states that it should be all-or-nothing, there is no grey in
the middle, that’s why he killed Desdemona as soon as he found out that she
was unfaithful towards him, it was not true though. Othello provides us an
interesting phrase that would restate his vision of love “I am one that loved not
wisely but too well”, he could realize that he was so extreme with his
conception, he did all of that due to his inexperience and naivety though.
Nonetheless, he had already made his biggest mistake and as there were no
greys in the middle, he decided to commit suicide.

The immediate attraction between the couple works on passion, and

Desdemona builds on that passion a steadfast devotion whose speed and
strength Othello cannot equal. Desdemona is very dutiful to her role as a wife,
and towards her husband. She fulfils her duty very well, and it was an extreme
love too. She took her duties as a wife maybe too far seeing them from the
present, but maybe, it was far enough to meet the requirements that the
patriarchal ideas asked women to fulfil. She was innocent, extreme in matters of
love and inexperienced at it as well as Othello. We can see that they had
similarities in their extremeness about love, they are very different in what they
do with it, and it could be a gender matter, since Othello’s love can be related
with power and Desdemona’s maybe related with the passivity of her role.

Iago often falsely professes love in friendship for Roderigo and Cassio and
betrays them both. For Iago, love is leverage. Desdemona's love in friendship
for Cassio is real but is misinterpreted by the jealous Othello as adulterous love.
The true friendship was Emilia's for Desdemona, shown when she stood up
witness for the honor of her dead mistress, against Iago, her lying husband, and
was killed for it.