Othello: Treatment of Women Quotations

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  • Treatment of Women in 'Othello'
    • 'thieves, thieves, thieves! Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!'
      • Iago-presents Desdemona as an object owned by her father, almost irrelevant in list of stolen objects.[A1S1]
    • 'the old black ram is tupping your white ewe!'
      • Iago-Desdemona is seen as property 'your' but also sexualised, her choice to be with Othello is seen as a violation. Desdemona as beautiful daughter is seen as prized possession. [A1S1]
    • 'And so much duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father'
      • Desdemona- irony that Desdemona, who disobeys her father and subverts patriarchal norms is in fact an upholder of tradition and is what a wife should be, faithful to her husband [A1S3]
    • 'I know our country disposition well;In Venice they do let God see the pranks'
      • Iago- Contextual, ties into Elizabethan/ Jacobean belief in the looseness of Venetian women. [A3S3]
    • 'Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch'
      • Emilia- Contrasts Desdemona's naive idealism with pragmatic assertion.[A4S3]
    • 'But i do think it is their husbands faultsIf wives do fall. Say that they slack their duties'
      • Emilia-revolutionary, contradicts patriarchal, jacobean norm of wifes unconditional loyalty, that upheld by Desdemona.
    • 'I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me?'
      • Othello-Reflects Jacobean beliefs that should a woman cheat on their husband, masculinity is destroyed [A4S1]

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