Blog Post 10 Othello

"So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile,
We lose it not so long as we can smile.
He bears the sentence well that nothing bears
But the free comfort which from thence he hears;
But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow
That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow.
These sentences to sugar or to gall,
Being strong on both sides, are equivocal
But words are words. I never did yet hear
That the bruised heart was pierced with the ear.
I humbly beseech you, proceed to th' affairs of state."
(1.3 241-252)

I thought this excerpt of Brabantino's conversation with the Duke was extremely interesting. He is so upset that he lost his daughter's love to Othello, the Moor, just because he is black. Othello had constantly been welcomed into Brabantino's home and was admired until Brabantino had found out that his daughter and Othello were married from Iago and Roderigo. I find this so interesting because he is comparing the eminent attack on Cyprus from the Turks being alright as long as they smile as the Duke had told him to do in reference to Desdemona's marriage to Othello. All the Senator's seem to also admire Othello's bravery in battle and find it just that it caused Desdemona to fall in love with him. Even the Duke mentions how he was sure even his daughter would do the same.