Othello Blog 1

Brabantio is very upset that Othello married his daughter Desdemona, he doesn’t want her marrying Othello he accuses Othello of having his daughter under a spell. He believe that if his daughter was under her own thinking and power that she wouldn’t of married Othello, he believed that she would of married someone of higher class and of more wealth. He is trying to protect his daughter he doesn’t believe that this man is good enough for her. Leonato on the other hand when he finds out why Hero’s Fiancé Claudio doesn’t marry her yells and gets mad at Hero. Hero was set up and Claudio was lead to believe that Hero was talking to another man in her window at night. Claudio then goes on not to marry her, and Leonato feels ashamed of his daughter and at first is against her because he feels that she has disgraced his families name. There is a big difference there in how each of the fathers handled the situation and big difference in thought. Brabantio was behind his daughter because he believed that his daughter wasn’t herself when they were married, so he took all of his frustration out on his son in law Othello. And Leonato took a different approach, he didn’t even want to hear his daughter out at first and believed all these false accusations and was mad and yelling at his daughter. He took the word of another man over the word of his own daughter.