Weddings are supposed to be the beginning of a beautiful, caring bond between two lovers. A man and a woman vow to love, honor and cherish each other for the rest of their lives, What happens when that old fairy tale saying that they shall live happily ever after goes awry? If that fairy tale always rang true, then there would be no such thing as divorce. Unfortunately, not all marriages end the way they began. This paper will attempt to decipher the cause of the demise of the bond between Desdemona and Othello. They did not simply stop loving each other. Certain outside "distractions" sent these two lovers away from each other, and ultimately to their own death.
             The marriage between Othello and Desdemona was supposed to work out perfectly. However, an outside party named Iago was able to manipulate the susceptible Othello into destroying his marriage. Without the interference of Iago, nothing would have came between Othello and Desdemona. Iago is responsible for every death, every fight and every argument that occurs within this play. There are always those few people that are jealous of someone else. By making you feel worse, their life somehow seems that much better. Throughout Shakespeare's "Othello," every character manages to get in the middle of the marriage between Othello and Desdemona. Yet, every character that interferes does so at the urging of the sly Iago. If no one had interfered, their marriage would have actually had a chance to work.
            
            
            
             From the outset, the two lovers were destined to be separated. The promise of everlasting happiness between the two never even had a chance. Upon reading "Othello," one can compare the marriage between Desdemona and Othello with that of Romeo and Juliet. Although it is an entirely different set of circumstances, one could immediately infer that this marriage was also doomed to fail before it even began.
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