Othello and the virtue of loveThe love of the protagonist and his wife in the tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare cannot withstand the repeated assaults of the sinister Iago. In this essay we try to look for and comment on the examples of love present in the play. Helen Gardner in "Othello: A Tragedy of Beauty and Fortune" highlights the love between the hero and his beloved: The love between Othello and Desdemona is a great feat of faith. He is free; he gets his freedom, and at a high price. Shakespeare, in creating the figure of the offended father, who dies of pain for his revolt, has sharpened and intensified, as everywhere, the story of the source. His disobedience and deception of her perhaps crosses her mind to Othello's ominous "Think of thy sins." If so, put the thought aside with “These are loves I bring you.” . . . Othello is a drama of passion and runs up to the time of passion; it is also a love drama which, unable to sustain the height of midday, immediately falls into the night. (141)The ideal love within the drama is the one that initially exists between the hero and Desdemona. Francis Ferguson in “Two Worldviews Call Each Other” describes the love that exists between the protagonist and his wife and how it is easy prey for the antagonist: When Othello sums up their innocent infatuation, we must feel that it is more accurate than you think. :He loved me because of the dangers I had run, and I loved him because he pitied them. Othello and Desdemona are so attractive that we tend to see them only as they see themselves: the noble Moor, the pure white maiden. But Shakespeare shows their love, even here at the beginning, as dreamy, absolutely helpless... middle of the paper... Giants. Rindge, New Hampshire: Richard Smith Publisher, 1957.Ferguson, Francis. “Two worldviews echo each other.” Readings on tragedies. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1996. Reprinted from Shakespeare: The Pattern in His Carpet. Np: np, 1970.Gardner, Helen. "Othello: a tragedy of beauty and fortune." Readings on tragedies. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1996. Reprinted from “The Noble Moor.” Lectures of the British Academy, n. 9, 1955. Pitt, Angela. "Women in Shakespeare's Tragedies." Readings on tragedies. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1996. Reprinted from Shakespeare's Women. Np: np, 1981.Shakespeare, William. Othello. In Electric Shakespeare. Princeton University. 1996. http://www.eiu.edu/~multilit/studyabroad/othello/othello_all.html No lines n..