"Desdemona: My noble father
I do perceive here a divided duty
To you I am bound for life and education,
My life and my education both do learn me
How to respect you. You are the lord of duty,
I am hitherto your daughter. But heres my husband
And so much duty as my mother showed
To you preferring you before her father
So much I challenge that I may profess
Due to the to the Moor my lord" (Shakespeare, 925-27)
I think that this set of lines from the play is important to the story itself because it is the part of the play when Desdemona tells her father that she loves him but she also loves the Moor and that she doesn't want to have to chose between the two of them. It is one of the deciding points in this play because this is the point in the play where the plot to get Moor to commit a crime is started. I found this part interesting because this poor girl is asked whether she was forced to do things with the one man she loves but she is afraid to tell her father that this is the man that she loves. She knows that she is bound to her father for a few things but she also knows she doesnt have to love who her father wants her to love.
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