Location, Location!

Throughout this your course, we are examining the importance of place as it relates to the characters. In Othello, Venice and Cyprus are the two cities that set our scene. Venice is our opening scene, and later we discover that this is where Othello will go to stripped of his title. As Venice is a beautiful setting, here is where Othello is accused of wrong-doing. First, his marriage of Desdemona that her father is very unpleasant with and at the end of his murderous strike. Overall, Venice is fitting for Othello to receive his punishment for killing his wife as she is from there.

As the book, does not give much history of Venice and Cyprus, the location of certain events is important. The bedroom transforms everyone life. Initially, the bedroom is a loving place where Othello tells his wife to go back to bed. Eventually, the bedroom is no longer for lovers but for adultery. This occurs as the false relationship between Desdemona and Cassio. In the bedroom, the lost handkerchief is find as the only physical proof of their relationship. Now, when Othello rushes Desdemona back to bed it is in a form of punishment. The bedroom builds as a terrible place to be for Desdemona. In the final Act, the bedroom is the place where Othello smoothers his wife. The bedroom suppose to be a place of escape and a place of your own, but Othello does not allow Desdemona to live and be free.