Desdemona, the heroine in Othello In William Shakespeare's Othello, Michael Cassius's praises to the richly blessed Desdemona, as she awaits her arrival in Cyprus, they are well deserved. This essay will amply support this claim. Blanche Coles in Shakespeare's Four Giants interprets the four very significant words of the protagonist's greeting to Desdemona which he utters upon landing in Cyprus: Othello's four words, "O joy of my soul", tell us that this beautiful Venetian girl has brought great joy, happiness, bliss to the depths of his soul. This exquisitely beautiful love that has come to a thoughtful and serious man is indescribably impressive. For him it is heaven on earth. And all the while, almost at hand, is Iago, the embodiment of evil, like the serpent in the Garden of Eden. (87)In Act 1 Scene 1, Iago persuades Desdemona's rejected suitor, Roderigo, to accompany him to the home of Brabantio, Desdemona's father, in the middle of the night. Once there the two wake him with loud cries about his daughter's escape with Othello. In response to Iago's vulgar descriptions of Desdemona's involvement with the general, Brabantio gets out of bed and, with Roderigo's help, assembles a search party to go find Desdemona and bring her home. The father's attitude is that life without his Desdemona will be much worse than before: it is too real an evil: she is gone; and what comes of my despised time will be nothing but bitterness. (1.1) So obviously the senator has great respect for his daughter, or at least the comforts she afforded him at the beginning of the play. This respect is shared by her new husband Othello, who... middle of paper... You told a lie, a hateful, damned lie; On my soul, a lie, an evil lie. She is fake. with Cassius! (5.2) Then he accuses him of having provoked the murder: “And your complaints triggered the murder”. Emilia's extraordinary interrogation and conviction of her husband as the evil mastermind behind the murder results in Iago's murder of her. The gullible Othello, pained by remorse for the tragic mistake he has made, stabs himself and dies on the bed next to his wife, his grief as deep as his love for Desdemona before Iago's machinations.WORKS CITEDShakespeare, William. Othello. In Electric Shakespeare. Princeton University. 1996. http://www.eiu.edu/~multilit/studyabroad/othello/othello_all.html No lines nos.Coles, Blanche. Shakespeare's Four Giants. Rindge, New Hampshire: Richard Smith Publisher, 1957.