... to his difference in race, causing him the need to prove his love for Desdemona and prove that he had not forced her into marriage with witchcraft. Othello does not back away from the accusations Brabantio puts upon him, but rather, begins calmly with Most potent, grave and reverend ... of the play. During Shakespearean time, women were regarded as less trustworthy than men, thus a man would have been easily believed his wife to be disloyal if a third party said so. Othellos suspicion of his wife grows as Iago plants more information in Othellos mind, tainting his image of ... word to fu...

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