How Does Desdemona Change Throughout The Play

in the early days women were expected to be house wives, cook, clean, and take care of the kids. They weren't allowed to vote or get a job like men did. All though this image has changed in the past decades the play Othello written by Shakespeare takes place in a time in which women were still seen this way. The play narrates the story of a black man name Othello, who secretly marries a white girl named Desdemona. As the play develops Othello lets jealousy take the best parts of him. Meanwhile Iago plans his revenge against Othello using women as the weakest link to get into Othello's head. In Shakespeare time women were possessions rather than equal human beings. Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca are the only three women in the play and they are constantly dominate and stereotype by men.

Desdemona is a tragic wife. Her character seems nearly perfect at early stages of the play, she's kind, loyal,
When the play begins she's portrayed as a brave women who's not afraid to speak her mind we see this when she stand up to his father (Brabantio) to marry the person that she loves "That I did love the moor to live with him (…) My heart's subdued even to the very quality of my lord (…) let me go with him" (I.3.245-256); however, as the play develops Desdemona character changes, she starts looing confidence in herself and stops being that strong women she was before her marriage. She's constantly silent and chooses to be submissive because that's what 'good wives' do. This is seen in multiple occasions through her lines in the play, for example "I am obedient" (iii.3.89) or when Othello tells her to go to bed she replies with "I will my lord"(iv.3.9). Although she seems the perfect stereotype wife, is her innocence and naiveness that ends with her life. In Desdemona`s head a