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  2. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › othelloOthello Act IV: Scene i Summary & Analysis | SparkNotes

    Lodovico is horrified by Othello’s loss of self-control, and asks Othello to call back Desdemona, who has left the stage. Othello does so, only to accuse her of being a false and promiscuous woman. He tells Lodovico that he will obey the duke’s orders, commands Desdemona to leave, and storms off.

  3. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › othelloOthello Act II: Scene iii Summary & Analysis | SparkNotes

    Now that Cassio will be spending time with Desdemona, Iago will find it all the easier to convince Othello that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, thus turning Desdemona’s virtue to “pitch” (II.iii. 234).

  4. www.thoughtco.com › desdemona-and-othello-2984765Shakespeare's Desdemona and Othello: An Analysis - ThoughtCo

    At the heart of Shakespeare's "Othello" is the doomed romance between Othello and Desdemona. They are in love, but Othello can't get past his self-doubt as to why such a lovely woman would love him. This leaves his mind susceptible to the tragic poisoning by the scheming Iago, even though Desdemona has done nothing wrong.

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  6. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › othelloOthello Act IV: Scenes ii & iii Summary & Analysis | SparkNotes

    Othello interrogates Emilia about Desdemona ’s behavior, but Emilia insists that Desdemona has done nothing suspicious. Othello tells Emilia to summon Desdemona, implying while Emilia is gone that she is a “bawd,” or female pimp (IV.ii. 21 ). When Emilia returns with Desdemona, Othello sends Emilia to guard the door.

  7. www.enotes.com › topics › othelloHow does Iago convince Othello of Desdemona's infidelity?

    Iago convinces Othello that Desdemona is cheating and having an affair with Cassio first by manipulating Othello's own insecurities.

  8. nosweatshakespeare.com › characters › desdemona-othelloDesdemona, Othello: An Overview Of Desdemona's Character

    He convinces Othello with engineered ‘evidence’ that Desdemona is having a sexual affair with Cassio. By doing that he plants jealousy into Othello’s mind. Othello becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife is sleeping with Cassio. Iago engineers an incident in a pub by making Cassio drunk and framing him for a small act of violence.

  9. shakespeare-navigators.ewu.edu › othello › S41Othello Navigator: Summary of Act 4, Scene 1

    (4.1.1). As the conversation progresses, we discover that Iago is torturing Othello by suggesting that it will be very hard to prove that Desdemona has done anything wrong. Is it possible, Iago asks, that she just gave Cassio an innocent kiss? Or could it be that she was just "naked with her friend in bed / An hour or more, not meaning any harm?"

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