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Othello’s DescentIn William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, the main character Othello is the supreme general in Venice who has illustrious achievements in battle and is the husband of the beautiful Desdemona, daughter of aninfluential Senator in the city. The marriage between Othello and Desdemona is condemned because of Othello’s race.DieterMehl describes that “Othello’s love offends against established rules and makes for a complete change of tone as well as a new quality of human relationships,” which points out the extraordinariness and intolerability of the union of these two (59).Even th