Sympathy for Othello

While this play is certainly a tragedy and made me upset to read, it's still hard for me to have sympathy for Othello. He kills Desdemona because he believes her to be cheating on him. I find it hard to sympathize with him when he finds out that she wasn't actually, because even if she had been, that would not make it a justifiable act to kill her. Who I sympathize the most with is Desdemona. While I do feel like Iago tormented Othello with all of his trickery, and certainly the racism from everyone towards Othello was not okay, but he still made the actions that In the end lead him to kill himself. Desdemona doesn't do anything, her husband doesn't trust her and in the end it turns out that she couldn't even trust him with her life. Even though she went against her father and married him despite the consequences. Desdemona is the one who is ultimately betrayed in my opinion. I know times were different blah blah, but in this day and age, no one would sympathize with a guy for killing his wife because his friend convinced him she was cheating on him. What is more upsetting about this situation is that it was definitely okay for men to sleep with other women during this time period whereas women were very much looked down upon and often times other more serious consequences for the same acts. On another note I do think the play shows just how manipulative and powerful people like Iago can be and how impressionable people like Othello can be. I guess I do feel some sympathy to him. He let his emotion take over and he didn't know what to believe, that's always a bad situation and Iago definitely played a huge part in causing Othello to fold and in the end make awful decisions. It's very sad that Othello takes his own life and I guess it's not so easy to say a person is all bad because they made one bad decision, it's just that it was a pretty big decision that was selfish and sexist as well. He does feel remorse which is good but it's just hard for me to put myself in his shoes.