how did it come to this?
"Desdemona is helplessly passive. she can do nothing whatever. she cannot retaliate even in speech...is helpless because her nature is infinitely sweet and her love absolute...her suffering is like that of the most loving of dumb creatures tortured without cause by the being he adores."
WTF.
the critic must be a guy.
he might as well just say it straight up that des is a stupid cow.