I think it doth: is’t frailty that thus errs? I think it is: and doth affection breed it? When they change us for others? Is it sport? Their wives have sense like them: they see and smellĪnd have their palates both for sweet and sour, Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace, ![]() Throwing restraint upon us or say they strike us, If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,Īnd pour our treasures into foreign laps, Emilia then delivers a beautiful and complex response, an insight to Shakespeare’s ability to deeply empathise with the female experience.īut I do think it is their husbands’ faults Desdemona, our ‘pure’ heroine is aghast and protests that she never could do such a thing. ![]() Emilia says she would, if she thought it would advance her husband’s status in the world. Emilia is getting Desdemona ready for bed and the two are discussing whether they could ever cheat on their husbands. The scene in which this monologue appears is a touching and tender interaction between the two women, Desdemona and Emilia. However, by the end of the play, she shows herself to be brave and heroic, an act that costs her her life. At the beginning of the play she seems either complicate or naive to her husband’s plot to ruin Othello. Desdemona the innocent wife, Bianca the courtesan and Emilia Desdemona’s attendant and Iago’s wife.Įmilia is an interesting character. In this world of war, military and men are three female character. Jealousy and rage slowly eats away at Othello and he consequently kills his wife. He is tricked by the scheming Iago into believing his wife, Desdemona, is cheating on him. Our tragic hero, Othello also known as the Moor, is a General in the Venetian army. Othello is Shakespeare’s great psychological tragedy that examines jealousy, racism, betrayal and madness.
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