1. The Motivation Behind Wuthering Heights
This paper aims to analyze her actions in the final scene (5.2) considering situational and societal variables that affect the outcome of the play in an attempt to shed more light on Desdemona's reasoning for dieing so complacently. ... This depression and the shock she experiences in the final scene surely influenced the outcome of her character. ... Right off the bat, the audience becomes aware that Desdemona has married a moor from vastly different descent than hers. ... In her final conversation she gives the audience good reason to presume that she has conviction in her religious...
You are the lord of duty,/ I am hitherto your daughter/ But here's my husband,/ And so much duty as my mother showed/ To you, preferring you before her father,/ So much I challenge that I may profess/ Due to the Moor my lord. ... One of Desdemona's most powerful speeches occurred in her final moments before Othello smothered her where she recited a song that she learned from one of her mother's maids, Barbary, "She was in love; and he proved mad And did forsake her. ...