Othello: expectation and reality

In Othello, Othello is an admirer on the surface, and Desdemona falls in love with him because of his life experience. But is it? Othello’s words cut through the root of it: “she loves me for my troubles, and I love her for her compassion.” Sympathy means that Desdemona’s real status in Othello’s mind. It seems that Othello, who has a high status in love, needs Desdemona’s compassionate love exactly. Moreover, if attention is paid to Othello’s “I notice this situation”, he sees an opportunity to pursue such compassionate love. We could not believe Othello’s words, but it was in his casual expression that I saw the hesitation, cowardice and inferiority of this strong man. So she thought he was the ideal man, but he wasn’t actually.

Othello realized that he needed Desdemona’s love, and the compassionate nature of that love filled him with uncertainty, always disillusioned with the end of good things.

He still loved Desdemona from the heart as a truly noble person, and on the one hand as a source of strength and a gift, and on the other, as a powerful savage, he sought to secure and solidify that gift into something concrete. Such a contradiction gave rise to Othello’s jealousy, which, by violence, confirmed Desdemona’s love, and which ultimately destroyed them both. In the process of this tragedy, Desdemona’s loyalty to Othello is a kind of noble blind faith, and it is this blind faith that aggravates the tragic color. For Desdemona, after all, was still devoted to Othello, though her pity for the noble Moorish side of him increased rather than diminished her affection for the noble qualities of her husband. But she could not see that Othello’s rage was the product of his weakness.

The tragedy of Othello and Desdemona is the tragedy of human nature. Othello tries to be the hero of the Christian republic he loves, thus successfully integrating into this civilized society. However, his obsession with honor and the great self-abasement that lay behind it inspired his jealousy of Desdemona, and prevented him from loving a man properly.