Why did Othello marry?Why did Othello marry is a complex question, the obvious answer would be that he loves Desdemona, but why does he love her and why does his love turn to hatred so quickly in act III scene 3 requires a lot of thought and consideration. Othello likes people to be clear and open because that is what he himself is, he has grown to become his image, he is only on the surface, he does not hide anything because it is his image, of having only one side, the military side. So Desdemona also seems very open to him, he likes her because he thinks she looks like him but when he discovers that she could be hiding something from him then he stops loving her. At the same time Othello needs a wife to complete his image, she is proof that he is a successful general and Christian and he can show her as such. Othello loves or thinks he loves Desdemona for many reasons, including because he thinks she is like him. He thinks it will be a good relationship because she seems to him to be like a soldier and therefore like him, so he attracted her while telling her about his struggles as we see in Act I, scene 3: "She loved me for the dangers. I succeeded." He speaks to him as he speaks to a soldier using images of war and power: “Let the winds blow until death wakes, and let the laboring boat climb the hills of the seas”. Because she accompanies him to the wars, she becomes even more in his mind one of his soldiers, so much so that on her return to Cyprus he greets her with: "O, my beautiful warrior". Othello cannot stand someone who is different from him, who he cannot understand, so that because he sees so much of himself in Desdemona, he loves her. It is his “hard and shiny surface” because it reflects his image when he looks at it. She is bossy, intelligent and self-confident, which he considers to be her best qualities. She shows how authoritative and intelligent she is when she first responds to her father in Act I Scene 3: To thee I am bound for life and education; My life and my education both teach me How to respect you.