Types of love in Othello: Desdemona

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Romantic love

Naive love

  • "'Twas strange, 'twas passing strange,/ 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful" (1.3.159-160)
  • "If i had a friend that loved her,/ I should but teach him how to tell my story/ And that would woo her" (1.2.163-5)
  • "She loved my for the dangers i have passed/ I loved her that she did pity them" (1.3.166-7)
  • "I do perceive her a divided duty" (1.3.179)
  • "To his honours and his valiant parts/ Did i my soul and fortunes consecrate" (1.3.249-250)
  • "Let me go with him" (1.3.255)
  • "Our loves and comforts should increase/ Even as our days do grow" (2.1.186-7)
  • "Our general's wife is now the general" (2.3.286)
  • "She reserves it evermore about her/ To kiss and talk to" (3.3.297-8)
  • "Twas that hand that gave away my heart" (3.4.41)
  • "Your wife, my lord; your true and loyal wife" (4.2.33)
  • "If you have lost him/ I have lost him too" (4.2.45-6)
  • "My love doth so approve him/ That even his stubbornness, his checks, his frowns/... Have grace and favour in them" (4.3.20)
  • "No, by this heavenly light" (4.3.63)
  • "Beshrew me, if i would do such a wrong for the whole world" (4.3.74-5)
  • "Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend" (4.3.101)
  • "Nobody; I myself- Farewell" (5.2.125)
  • "She was chaste; she loved thee, cruel Moor" (5.2.247)
  • "To his honours and his valiant parts/ Did i my soul and fortunes consecrate" (1.3.249-250)
  • "My noble Moor/ Is true of mind and made of no such baseness/ As jealous creatures are" (3.4.22-4)
  • "That there be women do abuse their husbands/ In such gross kind?" (4.3.59-60)
  • "Beshrew me, if i would do such a wrong for the whole world" (4.3.74-5)
  • "Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend" (4.3.101)
  • "Nobody; I myself- Farewell" (5.2.125)
  • "Commend me to my kind lord" (5.2.126)
  • "She was too fond of her most filthy bargain" (5.2.156)

Love & Death

Love & Sex

  • "If i do die before thee, prithee shroud me? In one of those same sheets" (4.3.23-4)
  • "She was in love, and he she loved proved mad/ And did forsake her" (4.3.26-7)
  • "She'd come again, and with greedy ear/ Devour up my discourse" (1.3.148-9)
  • "The rites for which i love him are bereft me" (1.3.253)

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