Othello - 3.1 - 3.1

"Why, your lieutenant, Cassio ... If I have any grace or power to move you,/His present reconciliation take./For if he be not one that truly loves you,/That errs in ignorance, and not in cunning,/I have no judgment in an honest face./I prithee call him back" (Desdemona 3.3.44-50.)

I strongly believe Desdemona has enough grace & power to move Othello, enough to change his mind but her timing could not be any wrong. Desdemona represents the soft side of Othello; he'll give into anything she says out or pure love for her. However, Othello has just seen Cassio & his wife together & when he arrived Cassio left. Before Iago's deceiving plan, Othello would have not thought anything of it. Her plea for him to forgive him is ironically not doing anything but making the situation worse.

penitent: feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment;