“Excellent wretch!...But I do love thee! And when I love thee not, Chaos has come again” (III.iii.90-92). Othello, a venetian general, in William Shakespeare’s Othello falls in love with the senator’s daughter, Desdemona. Othello’s “friend”, Iago, infests his mind with lies about Desdemona’s loyalty to him. Othello, filled with anger, confronts and murders Desdemona. But in the final minutes of his own life he learns of Iago’s deception and mourns for the loss of his wife. Othello, although he murdered her, loved Desdemona and expressed it right up until his own death An example of Othello’s love for Desdemona is in act 1. In this act Othello is seized and brought before the Duke of Venice by Desdemona’s father, Brabantio. Brabantio caught
