What Is The Role Of Women During The Renaissance
Women during the Renaissance where told that they must be obedient and submissive to men. Desdemona is obedient to her father Brabantio, as she is still his daughter and tells her father that she has not done anything to anger him. Also, she is extremely obedient and submissive to her husband Othello. Othello hits her and accuses her of cheating on him with Cassio, even then Desdemona doesn’t argue or try to deny any of it. All that she does is try to find out what she did to ager her husband. Women were not considered people, but rather property to either their husbands or to their fathers if they weren’t married. Women had no right except what was given to them through status of the men in their life. In the Renaissance this wasn’t a social
or cultural ideal, but rather the law “English civil law adhered to the principle of coverture, in which women were legally the property of men; a married woman had no independent legal or economic status since she was considered “covered” by her husband’s or father’s legal status as head of the house.” (Marriage and the Household 263). Desdemona is completely submissive and obedient to her husband as it was both the law and the customs of the time.
or cultural ideal, but rather the law “English civil law adhered to the principle of coverture, in which women were legally the property of men; a married woman had no independent legal or economic status since she was considered “covered” by her husband’s or father’s legal status as head of the house.” (Marriage and the Household 263). Desdemona is completely submissive and obedient to her husband as it was both the law and the customs of the time.