Oh, foolish Desdemona

Ingenuous Desdemona doesn't seem to notice anything happening in her surroundings. Or maybe, she is quite aware but is not erudite with her knowledge. Either way, in which she presents herself in the book is quite irritating for my taste. Yes, she is young, similar to my age, but the image that I get from Desdemona is that she is ignorant and perhaps playing dumb. I come to this conclusion because her persona is tacit; I could tell by her interactions with others that her mind wandered aimlessly.

Desdemona is charming with her looks, but her jejune personality is uninteresting and quite mundane. It is evident that she is just a pretty face and nothing more. In the beginning of the play, I thought she would blossom into a more developed character, but she was just a surface character for me. I honestly thought that Emilia was a much more captivating character than Desdemona. She was obsequious to Iago, yet she had an underlying drive to use her knowledge to, perhaps, deceive Desdemona. She had Desdemona on a string, practically subjugating her. Emilia was interesting to learn about because she had charisma, yet Desdemona was dull.

Desdemona was just a beautiful girl yet so shallow.