Othello's Personality Othello's speech to Brabantio and the Duke in Act 1, Scene 3 is of great importance in describing Othello's personality. This long speech, found in lines 149 to 196, shows Othello for the first time as a profound person and less like a soldier. This speech is important for the entire book because it testifies to the strength of the love between Othello and Desdemona, which will then have a leading role in the plot. It is also one of the first times we see Othello trying to influence his audience with his words. The speech given by Othello is intended to convince Brabantio that Desdemona is with him voluntarily, and not with "spells and medicines bought from Montebanks" (line 74). His father loved me, invited me often, still questioned me about the story of my lifeFrom year after year - the (battles,) sieges, (fortunes) that I went through. I retraced it, even from my boyhood days, to the very moment he ordered me to tell it, when I spoke of the most dire possibilities: of moving accidents caused by floods and fields, of landscapes a hair's breadth wide in the imminent deadly breach, to be captured by the insolent enemy, and of importance in my traveller's history, where of vast caverns and idle deserts, rough quarries, rocks, (and) hills whose (heads) touch the sky, was my suggestion to speak - such was my procedure - and of the cannibals who eat one (the other), the anthropophagi, and the men whose heads (grow) below their shoulders. Desdemona would be seriously inclined to hear these things. But still the affairs of the house drew her (thither), and whenever she could with haste and haste she came again, and with an eager ear devoured my discourse. Which I, observing, took myself once every flexible hour, and found good means... in the middle of the paper... Shakespeare's Othello. Ed. Anthony G. Barthelemy Pub. Macmillan New York, NY 1994.Bartels, Emily C. "Strategies of Submission: Desdemona, the Duchess, and the Affirmation of Desire" Studies of English Literature Spring 1996: (Online) accessible. April 27, 1999 http://www. Galileopechnet.eduBloom, Harold. "Introduction" Modern critical interpretations, Othello Ed. Harold Bloom, Pub. Chelsea House New Haven CT 1987.Jones, Eldred. "Othello: an interpretation" Critical essays on Shakespeare's Othello. Ed. Anthony G. Barthelemy Pub. Macmillan New York, NY 1994.Neely, Carol. "Women and men in Othello" Critical essays on Shakespeare's Othello. Ed. Anthony G. Barthelemy Pub. Macmillan New York, NY 1994.Snyder, Susan. "Beyond comedy: Othello" Modern critical interpretations, Othello Ed. Harold Bloom, Pub. Chelsea House New Haven CT 1987.