Summary Othello.

It all starts with this women called Desdemona who falls in love with this man called Othello when he tell her the stories of his adventures. She marrys him dispite his skin colour and without her fathers blessing. Othello is the commander over the Venetian army and with the next ship Desdemona joins her brave husband to the war in Cyprus. During the rest of the journey she´s being taken care of by a young officer named Cassio. Cassio has been promoted to a Lieutenant and by doing that Othello has made an enemy called Jago. He feels neglected and is longing for vengeance. Jago finds a way to make Cassio lose his rank as Lieutenant and advices him to call on Desdemona and ask her for help and in that order Desdemona begs her husband to rehire Cassio. Now Jagos big moment has come. His whispers to Othello that Desdemona and Cassio loves each other and to prove his point he showes the handkerchief that ackording to him was in Cassios possesion when he’d really just stolen it from Desdemona. Furius with envy Othello strangles Desdemona without listening her telling the virtuous truth. He later realises his mistake and in limitless dispair and remorse he stabs himself and dies by Desdemonas side. Jago gets handed over to Cassio who is now the Governor of Venice to be punished.