Theme Of Forgiveness In Othello

By the end of the play when Othello is about to kill his wife, he has her beg for forgiveness from God. This is done so that Othello can ensure that Desdemona would go to heaven even though she had “sinned”. This makes it seem as though Othello still cares for his wife and did not wish for her to go to the worse place she could be “hell” because of one mistake which the audience knows she did not commit but Othello has not been privy to this information just yet. After Desdemona is killed and Othello finds out that Iago was deceiving him, he kills himself without asking for forgiveness from god. He knows that he made a mistake and should have asked his wife about what Iago had been telling him. Deep down, Othello knew his wife would not cheat …show more content…
The couple end up getting married which causes drama throughout the city, since it was an unplanned unapproved wedding. Othello and Desdemona are not the only married couple in this play, there is also Iago and Emilia. This couple has less money and less love involved in there union however this does not change the fact that they are married throughout the play. Marriage is difficult for any couple weather they were a couple in the 1600s or a modern day couple, and even though Othello and Desdemona show there love differently than Iago and Emilia does that mean that their love is …show more content…
Othello is so in love with Desdemona that he was willing to go through everything with her father so that he could marry this women, and even though he ends up being coerced into thinking that she is being unfaithful to him it only hurts because he loves her so much. The idea of the women that he loves more than anything in this world wanting to be with someone else especially someone that is so close to Othello kills him inside. Iago on the other hand does not seem to care much about Emilia, and this could be because it is hard to believe that Iago is able to have any feelings other than hate towards people. However there is a point in the play when Iago says that he is doing all of this because he heard that both Casio and Othello had slept with his wife. (QUOTES) Now although Iago keeps changing his story, there is the possibility that he was so in love with his wife that the idea of any other man sleeping with her would hurt him deeply, so rather than killing Emilia like Othello does to Desdemona he hurts everyone around her and takes away her only