Othello cannot receive sympathy from the audience because it takes it away from Desdemona, who deserves all our sympathy. Othello's choices are based solely on what he doesn't know for sure, which is why we have no sympathy for him. It is convincing that Othello is not in love with Desdemona simply because he managed to see her strangled to death with his own hands, even though she begged him to let her live. Sympathy for Othello was eliminated after he struck and killed Desdemona, all because he was