Factors shaping it include gender inequality and community attitudes towards women: The Commission shows the causes of family violence to be complex. The implication is that if she actually had an affair with Cassio, Othello would have considered the killing justified, and not taken his own life. Othello suicides not because he killed Desdemona, but rather because he killed her on the mistaken understanding that she had desired and loved another man. It also reports:Ī demonstrable link between family violence, homicide and suicide … a large number of men who died from suicide in Victoria between 20 had a history of family violence. The commission reports strangulation as a common method used by male perpetrators to kill female victims. Othello and Desdemona by Alexandre Marie Colin. “She’s gone, I am abused, and my relief / Must be to loather her” quickly escalates to “I’ll tear her all to pieces!” and “chop her into messes.” He makes increasingly violent threats to harm and kill Desdemona. Having been mistakenly told that Desdemona is having an affair with his lieutenant Cassio, Othello repeatedly verbally abuses Desdemona in sexual terms – he calls her a public whore, a commoner, a strumpet and a devil. Othello’s abuse of Desdemona matches the Commission’s description of family violence as a multifaceted pattern of escalating behaviour rather than a single event. What does the recent Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence tell us about the Venetian general’s murder of his wife Desdemona, and his subsequent suicide? How might the commission’s recommendations have prevented the violence in Shakespeare’s play? And how does a 21st-century perspective on family violence deepen our insights and pathos on viewing the play? Bell Shakespeare’s production of Othello is touring Australia until December 2016.
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