The account of the wooing of Desdemona only adds to it. The other great and concomitant point about Othello is his lack of knowledge both of women and his own sexuality. The speech has begun with an odd, even awkward metaphor likening the relationship between husband and wife to the relationship between falconer and the falcon. It at least carries notions of a certain chivalric courtesy and evokes the closeness and delight the falconer may find in partnership with the falcon. Think of how Othello's language begins to run to animal metaphor as Iago's has from the beginning.
Women are either whores or statue-like objects to be worshipped.
He is the catalyst of Othello's downfall, but it is at Othello himself we need to look. He is unable to deal with uncertainty. In the final outcome, racism is peripheral as a cause of Othello's downfall. Shakespeare emphasises instead the psychological isolation, the shallowness of Othello's interior life and the paucity of his experience as the major contributors to the tragedy. The Age Company Ltd 2000.