Brabantio

Family: Venice · Role: senator · First appears: Othello · Act I, Scene I

Life events

• Iago alerts Brabantio that Desdemona has eloped with Othello.(Othello · Act I, Scene I · 📍 Venice)
  • With: Iago Othello Desdemona
  • “I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”
• Brabantio learns that Othello and Desdemona are probably married.(Othello · Act I, Scene I)
  • With: Othello Desdemona
  • “Are they married, think you? RODERIGO. Truly I think they are.”
• Brabantio arms a search party to apprehend Othello and Desdemona.(Othello · Act I, Scene I)
  • With: Roderigo Othello Desdemona
  • “Get weapons, ho! And raise some special officers of night. On, good Roderigo.”
• Brabantio accuses Othello of abducting and enchanting Desdemona.(Othello · Act I, Scene II)
  • With: Othello Desdemona
  • “O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow’d my daughter? Damn’d as thou art, thou hast enchanted her,”
• Othello publicly reveals that he has married Desdemona.(Othello · Act I, Scene III)
  • With: Othello Desdemona
  • “That I have ta’en away this old man’s daughter, It is most true; true, I have married her.”
• Brabantio relinquishes his opposition and accepts Othello as Desdemona’s husband.(Othello · Act I, Scene III)
  • With: Othello Desdemona
  • “I here do give thee that with all my heart Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart I would keep from thee.”

Othello · Act I, Scene I

• with Roderigo (Brabantio has rejected Roderigo’s suit to his daughter and forbidden him from visiting.) “I have charg’d thee not to haunt about my doors; In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee;”

Othello · Act I, Scene II

• child: Desdemona “O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow’d my daughter?”

Othello · Act I, Scene III

• child: Desdemona (Brabantio is Desdemona's father.) “My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty: To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of duty, I am hitherto your daughter: but here’s my husband.”
• with Othello (Brabantio is Othello's father-in-law.) “And, noble signior, If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.”

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