The Role of Women in Othello: A Feminist Reading There are only three women in ‘Othello’: Desdemona‚ Emilia and Bianca. The way that these women behave and conduct themselves is undeniably linked to the ideological expectations of Shakespeare’s Elizabethan society and to the patriarchal Venetian society that he creates. These notes will explore some of the ways in which the female characters are presented in the play. Women as possessions Following his hearing of Brabantio’s complaint and Othello’s
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someone‚ pegged black man as being dangerous animalistic creatures: telling other men of superiority that they were after their wives and their nice things when in reality all the black man wanted was to be treated like a human being and not animals. This is something that the black man still has to ask for today because with the centuries of negativity surrounding their skin color and the way the media depicts them
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Ideals of Women in Othello What is the ideal woman? The response to this by today’s society might differ to that of Renaissance society. In the Renaissance‚ women were seen as possessions. Their duty was to marry a man and show obedience and chastity. These expectations of women are shown in the play Othello‚ by William Shakespeare. In the play‚ the two prominent women‚ Desdemona and Emilia‚ both recognize the expectations of women at the time. However‚ the two women disagree in their views on
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Discuss the representation of women in the patriarchal world of Othello Shakespeare’s play‚ Othello‚ represents women as victims of the patriarchal society in which they live. Early modern England‚ founded on Christian theology‚ viewed women‚ daughters of Eve‚ as sexual temptresses who needed to be ruled over by men in order to have their innate tendency of lasciviousness restrained (Marriot 10). Consequently‚ social expectations were placed on women to be chaste‚ silent and gentle in demeanor
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Othello written by William Shakespeare is a very interesting and double-minded play. I chose the passage of Emilia’s speech to Desdemona not because it was odd but because Emilia stood out to me as a very opinionated woman. I wanted to work with it more closely because Emilia captured my attention with her slightly exaggerated opinions on men. I got a strong sense of inequality with this whole scene (4.3). Emilia thinks that it is the husbands’ fault for their wives to be cheating: “But I do
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female characters of Othello endure it is clear that Shakespearean society viewed women as lesser beings who existed only to serve the men in their lives‚ and who were supposed to subservient‚ submissive‚ pure and above all else obedient. Obedient to their husbands‚ father‚ brothers and all men. Patriarchal rule justified women’s subordination as the natural order because women were thought to be physiologically and psychologically inferior to men. Although the women in Othello are measured against
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Women vs Men According to Albert Einstein‚ “Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.” Not only was Einstein was the king of quantum physics‚ but he got right to the point of the most troubling challenges in relations to men vs women. To break it down into better terms‚ the thinking of process of our opposite sex differs. Dave Barry writes a fundamental article called “Beauty and the Beast‚” that gives a response
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Coaching Men vs Coaching Women Research Summary – August 2007 BACKGROUND SKAI is a long established leadership development consultancy‚ that has coached 100’s of senior leaders‚ men and women‚ over the years. As an organisation founded by four women‚ we have always fought shy of any gender-based typecasting‚ taking the stance that all people are different‚ regardless of their sex. More recently‚ we have been asked to get involved in furthering the cause of women leaders‚ as many organisations
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Men vs. Women “Roles of men and women now vs back then.” How things used to be. Things have changed so much from the 1800’s to the times we are living in now. When you ask someone about this time period they will immediately tell you home much thing have changed especially between women. Nowadays we see women doing things that would be seen as bad‚ or as weakness from men. Before women were to marry young with a man that can support her and their family to come‚ be stay at home moms‚ and one of
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Men Vs. Women in Professional Sports Ever since the ancient Greece‚ men have held athletic competitions or sports. It is only in modern times that women have had an opportunity to compete. Most sports still don’t have men and women directly competing against one another. In the past athletic instructors adapted the rules to make sports less physically taxing for women. For instance in basketball‚ to ensure that girls maintain proper decorum‚ they were forbidden from snatching the ball and dribbling
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