JUDGMENT :

S.K. Sahoo, J.

Othello, the General in the Venetian military realized the innocence of his young beautiful wife Desdemona but by that time, it was too late. She had already been strangled to death in their bed in the hands of Othello on the suspicion of adultery with Cassio. That is what the Shakespearean tragedy ‘Othello’ depicts.

Philo Thelos writes in ‘Divine Sex’ as follows:-

“A man commits adultery by taking from the married woman what her husband has claimed as his sole privilege. It is this ‘property rights’ issue that distinguishes adultery. Strictly speaking adultery is not ‘sex with someone other than one’s spouse’. Adultery is taking what belongs to someone else.”

Trust on the spouse makes the bond of marriage stronger, happy and peaceful. When one struggles to trust on the trustworthiness of the spouse and suspects his/her infidelity with unfounded accusation, the bond gets destroyed. Suspicion enters through the back door in a marital life paving way for happiness and peace through the front door. It is said that there is no smoke without fire but sometimes dense fog is mistaken as smoke. It is always better to clear doubt by open discussion in secret and to corr