Othello and Desdemona’s marriage started off strong. The two brazenly defended their love despite Venice’s racist setting, and Desdemona’s hot-tempered father Brabantio. It would seem that

Othello and Desdemona’s reasons for marriage were highly irregular and therefore weak and unable to endure Iago’s evil schemes. “She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.” Desdemona fulfilled a place in Othello’s view of himself.3 She merely served as the only trophy Othello had not won before then. As a military man, Othello was characteristically very ambitious. He probably did not consider Desdemona an equal, but she represented all the good he could attain or accomplish. Othello told Iago, “My demerits may speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune as this that I have reached.” Othello loved Desdemona as an extension of himself, and in his greatest moments of happiness, his marriage was sustained by an idealized vision of himself serving as the object of his exalted romantic passion.4

On the other hand, Shakespeare showed that the defenders of righteousness were associated with positive images of natural order and with patriarchal control.16 Both Malcolm and Macduff lost family members: Duncan, Lady Macduff and Macduff’s children. Macduff told Malcolm, “Let us rather hold fast the mortal sword and, like good men bestride our downfall’n birthdom. Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face, that it resounds as if it felt with Scotland, and yelled our like syllable of dolor.” Macduff and Malcolm were two of the few that remain good in “Macbeth.”

nature was also on their side. A storm left many dead during the journey to Cyprus by ship but nature cooperated in the general movement with a storm that dispersed, while preserving the favored lovers.2 It would seem that Othello’s marriage to Desdemona had a successful future, but disarray initiated by Iago would bring that all to a sudden end.

Contrasting Iago, who had no consciousness of good, Macbeth began with doubt in his ambitious plans. His doubts were stimulated by his subconscious recognition that there was no possible way to integrate his desires with the proper order of things.8 He wanted to be king, but he knew it wasn’t his place to be one. “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir.” Macbeth knew that his restless desire to interfere with destiny was arrogant and useless.9 However, Macbeth was too ambitious for his own good. He and Lady Macbeth had discussed murdering Duncan before the witches even showed up.10 Banquo knew the w

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