This different view on Othello is very interesting and something to think about. However, I do not believe in this prospect. Othello is showing so much remorse in Desdemonas death that he goes as far as to kill hismelf for the wrong he's done. Some of Othello's last words were "Of one that loved not wisely but too well." He's talking about how they should talk of him when he dies. I interpert this as that he loved Desdemona so much that he over reacts when he hears she may be sneaking around him. He loved too well in the sense that he may think he loved her so much that he was blinded by the "signs" she had been showing unintentionally. I honestly believe Othello and Desdemona loved each other with all of their hearts and neither of them were in the wrong until Iago started in with his evil. The term "trophy wife" is used when you can tel the husband doesn't really care about his wife, only to show her off. The way Othello wants Desdemona to go to Cyprus with him and that he had Emilia go with her so she had female company shows he cares. Personally I find no evidence in this mans assumption of Desdemona and Othellos relationship and do not agree.


Brittany Jurczyk