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--- Desdemona is a sweet, naive victim in this tragedy. She is a compassionate woman who has fallen in love with an older, poorer, uglier man who her father disapproves of. She loves him "for the dangers he had passed." She pities him because of his tragic life and respects him for his endurance for pain. Desdemona is a prime example of how the characteristics of the Shakespearean Tragedy fall into Othello perfectly.

Shakespeare's tragedies, without exception, end with the hero dead: Othello stabs himself; Romeo and Juliet, victims of suicide, are carried to their prince on slabs; Marc Antony and Cleopatra end their own lives; Hamlet is killed with a poison-tipped sword; Macbeth is beheaded in a fight; and Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus both die by the sword. In not one of Shakespeare's tragedies does the hero survive. This being true, it is possible to propose the death of the hero as essential to labeling a tragedy "Shakespearean." Therefore, when Othello dies at the end of "Othello, The Moor Of Venice" it is for a more fundamental reason than that a different ending would not fit emotionally or psychologically. It is because if he did not die, the tragedy would not be Shakespearean.

Emilia on the other hand is quite a different character from Desdemona. She is one who