Othello help me with homework: Why doesn’t Desdemona react more strongly when Othello accuses her of infidelity
Why doesn’t Desdemona react more strongly when Othello accuses her of infidelity?
As Emilia prepares her mistress’s wedding bed, Desdemona talks of her mother’s servant Barbary who was forsaken by a mad lover, 4.3.25ff; then she and Emilia talk about whether they would be unfaithful to their husbands or not (4.3.60ff). What is the significance of this conversation?