tery against her, he kills her in the name of love and to salvage his own honor, "An honorable murder, if you will: For naught did I do in hate, but all in honor."(Ln 291 Act 5,2). This course of action was seen as the acceptable thing for a man to do in such a situation. Through out the play Othello acts out of honor, justice and duty, but towards the end his mind becomes corrupted and he begins to act against the acceptable behavior of society. Jealousy and greed have taken over as pointed out by Lodovico when Othello slaps his Desdemona in public, "Is this the noble moor, whom our full senate call all-in-all sufficient?"(Ln 266 Act 4,1). Through the construction of gender and with the us
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