Othello's PersonalityOthello's speech to Brabantio and the Duke in Act 1, Scene 3 is of major importance in describing Othello's personality. This long speech, found in lines 149 to 196, shows Othello for the first time as a person with depth and less as a soldier. This speech is important to the entire book because it demonstrates the strength of the love between Othello and Desdemona, which will later play a major role in the plot. This is also one of the first times we see Othello attempt to influence his audience with his words. The speech given by Othello is intended to convince Brabantio that Desdemona is with him willingly, and not by "spells and medicines bought at Montebanks" (line 74). His father loved me, often invited me over, still questioned me about my life story. year after year, the (battles,) sieges, (fortunes) that I went through. I went through it, even from my childhood, until the very moment he asked me to tell it, where I spoke of the most disastrous chances: of moving accidents due to floods and fields, of landscapes to the thickness of a hair in the imminent mortal breach of being taken by the insolent enemy and of lift in the history of my traveler, where of vast caverns and inactive deserts, of crude quarries, of rocks and hills of which (the heads) touch the sky, I let it be understood that I was speaking - this was my process - and of the cannibals that some (the others) eat, of the cannibals and of the men whose heads (grow) under their shoulders. Would Desdemona seriously be inclined to hear these things? But the affairs of the house would always drag her (away), whenever she could, in all haste, she would return and with eager ear devour my speech. What I observed, I once took a flexible time and found good ways T...... middle of paper... Hakespeare's Othello. Ed. Anthony G. Barthélemy Pub. Macmillan New York, NY 1994.Bartels, Emily C. "Submission Strategies: Desdemona, the Duchess, and the Affirmation of Desire" Studies in English Literature Spring 1996: (online) accessed. April 27, 1999 http://www. Galileo pechnet.eduBloom, Harold. "Introduction" Modern Critical Interpretations, Othello Ed. Harold Bloom, Pub. Chelsea House New Haven CT 1987.Jones, Eldred. "Othello - An Interpretation" Critical essays on Shakespeare's Othello. Ed. Anthony G. Barthélemy Pub. Macmillan New York, NY 1994. Neely, Carol. "Women and Men in Othello" Critical essays on Shakespeare's Othello. Ed. Anthony G. Barthélemy Pub. Macmillan New York, NY 1994. Snyder, Susan. “Beyond Comedy: Othello” Modern Critical Interpretations, Othello Ed. Harold Bloom, Pub. Chelsea House New Haven CT 1987.