According to W.D. Adamson, Othello may have had some reasoning behind questioning Desdemona's fidelity. He writes that many interpreted her as either strictly a "wanton" or a "desexualized spirit." Some even saw her as being the "elemental strife between Good and Evil, the metaphor of the moral dualism sustained by the Christian imagination." In summary these opinions are not how most women would expect to see Desdemona interpreted. They believe she was loyal from the beginning and her sexual innocence should have never been questioned. Adamson notes others that believe Desdemona expressed doubts about her marriage to Othello and began to think that maybe she should have married of her own race and class. He quotes W.H. Auden who says, "[After listening to Emilia's speech on adultery] it is as if she had suddenly realized that she had made a mesalliance and that the sort of man she ought to have married was someone of her own class and color like Lodovico." Overall, Adamson is attempting to depict that Desdemona may have rightfully so been accused as an adulteress by her love Othello due to her quilty feelings and unforeseen future plans with Cassio, whom she may have loved as more than a friend. It is difficult to not have your opinion of Desdemona slightly shifted as a result of such research and exploration into her possible true nature. The question of her innocence truly is brought to light and no longer is there an obvious answer in the female mind that she is innocent, but rather a lingering question that will now never be answered.
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