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In four pages this paper demonstrates how Desdemona is no more than an unknowing pawn in a very elaborate game played by men with examples from each scene supporting her innocence of any wrongdoing. There are no other sources listed in the bibliography.
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fact, the young Desdemona was guilty of nothing except perhaps for being too na?ve and lacking in sophistication to adequately understand the moods and insecurities of her much-older husband.
She was, sadly, nothing more than a pawn in a very complex game the men around her were playing to satisfy their own agendas and serve their own selfish purposes.
As scenes from the play clearly indicate, various men were working behind the scenes to get what they want, leaving poor Desdemona held accountable for their actions. When
Desdemona speaks, she reveals herself to be truthful, faithful, and completely committed to her marriage and her husband. For this loyalty, she will pay dearly. Act I introduces Iago
as a vengeful master manipulator eager to share with the audience his cunning intent to implicate Desdemona in a scheme to retaliate against Othello for being bypassed for a military
promotion in favor of Lt. Michael Cassio. Upon learning of Othello and Desdemonas elopement, Iago declares: "Call up her father, / Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight,
/ Proclaim him in the streets, incense her kinsmen, / And, though he in a fertile climate dwell, / Plague him with flies. Though that his joy be joy, /
Yet throw such changes of vexation ont / As it may lose some color" (I.i.69-75). When Senator Brabantio learns of his daughters marriage and what he perceives as Desdemonas
betrayal, he unknowingly falls into Iagos trap. His racist rant against Othello emphasizes Desdemonas purity and he reasons that Moor must have used mysticism to lure the impressionable girl
from her very sheltered environment: "O thou foul thief, where hast thou stowd my daughter? / Damnd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her, / For Ill refer me to
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