Desdemona is a fictional character in the playOthello by William Shakespeare. She is Othello's wife, and the daughter of Senator Brabantio. She is both lightskinned and innocent; Shakespeare uses her as a symbol of purity to contrast malevolent Iago and his worldly wife, Emilia. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The mermaid, 1858 Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (3 December 1830–25 January 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... A play is a common form of literature, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters, and usually intended for performance rather than reading. ... This page is about the Shakespeare play, for the board game, see Othello board game. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Brannagh as Othello and Iago. ...
Desdemona's love and trust for her husband lasts to her dying breath.
Desdemona is often viewed as a self-sacrificing Christ figure somewhat like Cordelia from another Shakespeare play, King Lear. Cordelia can refer to several things: Queen Cordelia was a legendary queen of the Britons. ... King Lear and the Fool in the Storm by William Dyce (1806-1864) King Lear is generally regarded as one of William Shakespeares greatest tragedies. ...
Critics classify her as one of Shakespeare's rebellious females. Although headstrong they are still easily manipulated and "gentle".
"Othello and Desdemona in Venice" by Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856)
Othello is referred to as a "Moor"; for Elizabethan Englishmen, this term could refer to the Arabs of North Africa, or to the people we would now call "fl" (that is, people of sub-Saharan African descent).
Othello's tragic flaw is thus that he is unable to cope with the notion that the relationship between signifier and signified is arbitrary.
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