OTHELLO: ROMANTIC LOVE

OTHELLO: ROMANTIC LOVE "She loved me for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them" (Othello) - ANS-Act 1 Scene 3: Othello and Desdemona's love is built not on sexual appetite, but on mutual understanding "My heart's subdued / Even to the very quality of my lord." (Desdemona) - ANS-Act 1 Scene 3: Desdemona submits entirely to her husband and is in love with his personality "I saw Othello's visage in his mind" (Desdemona) - ANS-Act 1 Scene 3: Desdemona fell for Othello for his personality "But to be free and bounteous to her mind" (Othello) - ANS-Act 1 Scene 3: Othello wants Desdemona's company platonically "Ere I would say I would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I would change my humanity with a baboon." (Iago) - ANS-Act 1 Scene 3: Iago believes romantic love to be fickle "If sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt an erring Barbarian and a super-subtle Venetian be not too hard for my wits" (Iago) - ANS-Act 1 Scene 3: Iago mocks marriage as fickle "O, my fair warrior!" (Othello) - ANS-Act 2 Scene 1