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Desdemona
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The tiny peanut-farming hamlet of Desdemona in Eastland County was transformed when oil was struck in 1918. Tents and shacks sprang up all around the town to house speculators and workers who flocked to the area, and the population grew from 340 to 16,000 almost overnight. The vast quantities of oil often overflowed their tanks, polluting streams and creeks and fouling the air. With Desdemona's new-found wealth came epidemics of typhoid and influenza, as well as gambling, prostitution, the Ku Klux Klan, and violent crime. In April 1920 the Texas Rangers had to be sent into Desdemona to keep order in the town. By 1922 the boom was over and the hordes of oil workers moved on.
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Iago enlists Roderigo’s help in disgracing Cassio: He convinces the lovelorn and gullible Roderigo that Desdemona is in love with Cassio and that this disgrace will aid Roderigo’s suit. While Cassio stands the first watch of the night, Iago tempts him with a celebratory drink, knowing his weakness for wine. Soon drunk, Cassio is lured by Roderigo into a fight that quickly raises an alarm in the streets. Hearing the outcry, Othello arrives and casts the drunken lieutenant from both his favor and his position.
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Shakespeare’s Othello The character of Desdemona represents a woman of the 17th century who surpassed the norms of sexual morality set for Venetian women of that time. When Desdemona left the house of her father, Brabantio, to wed the Moor, Othello, it was the first step in redefining her role as a woman. Desdemona, instead of asking her father’s permission, decided on her own to marry Othello. It seems as though Desdemona was breaking away from the strictness imposed by Brabantio. She denied her father any right in choosing or granting allowance to Othello to marry her. Instead she chose the man who she wanted to marry and felt it unnecessary that her father intervene in their relationship.
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Desdemona grew up in what is now known as the Blue Shard, as the daughter of Dara and Corwin. She spent the first part of her childhood in Chaos, with her family, but after she acquired at least rudimentary control over her shapeshifting abilities, she was shipped off to join a number of cousins in Arden, to be the ward of her Uncle Julian. Being in Amber wasn't always easy on her. Aside from the lack of fellow shapeshifters, she was never quite fully at ease as one of the only Logrus Initiates to walk in a world of Pattern users. Julian, his crew, and Weyland all managed to make her feel welcome... and she developed a particular fondness for her uncle and the large smith.
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Having had to preside over a state dinner right after being abused by her husband in Act IV, scene ii, Desdemona must be completely exhausted by the beginning of Act IV, scene iii. She submits without complaint to Othello’s order that she go to bed and dismiss Emilia. Despite Othello’s repeated offenses, Desdemona continues to love her husband. Alone with Desdemona, Emilia reflects that it would have been better if Desdemona had never seen Othello, but Desdemona rejects this idea, saying that Othello seems noble and graceful to her, even in his rebukes.
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Desdemona is smothered to death in bed by Othello. Within about half a minute, to judge by the ensuing dialogue between Othello and Emilia (to make sure that there will be no recovery), Othello again smothers Desdemona and she is pronounced by the dramatist to be dead. A few minutes elapse, when she suddenly speaks, utters several sentences at three several times, with pauses, replies in a rational conversation, and then, no further violence having been offered her, expires for good. The question therefore arises how could Desdemona have regained consciousness and power of speech not less than four minutes after the actual stroke of death had been inflicted on her and she had been pronounced by the dramatist to be dead? Various medical authorites have been consulted on this point, and they all agreed that if she had regained consciousness sufficiently to speak intelligently, as she did, recovery would have ensued. What could have induced the dramatist to narrate a circumstance so extraordinary and so contrary to all human experience?
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