Desdemona

As Shakespeare's Othello the Moor of Venice progresses we see Desdemona remain a flat character. As a reader, I feel much sympathy for her. She has no idea of what is being said behind her back.one could tell that she can pick up clues that Othello is a bit perturbed by whatever she did by the different way he acts toward her. It would be devastating having a husband who was so loving who then all of a sudden treats one as a servant and wants one dead. Othello doesn't even try to get her side of the story to see that she would never do such a thing until after he allowed Iago to get inside his head. Shakespeare portrays Desdemona as completely sweet, honest, and a bit naive. She does what Othello asks because she has unconditional love towards him. I thought it was ironic how even on her death bed, she blames herself for her death because it must be the truth if Othello thought it. "Commend me to my kind lord" (Shakespeare, 1453, V.ii.124). Even here, she speaks  kind words of her beloved husband who just tried to strangle her.

We see Desdemona's true character as we hear Emilia and her discussing what kind of wives they should be. She becomes so flabbergasted that "there are women who do abuse their husbands in such gross kind (cheat on them)" (Shakespeare, 1444,IV.iii.60-61). The fact that's he gets so upset that there are women like that, she shows that she is not a strumpet as Iago portrays.