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"You have little cause to say so."
Emilia’s first words in the play are to challenge her husband when he is deriding her in front of his superiors. It establishes her as a character with strength.
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“I will bestow you where you shall time to speak your bosom freely.”
Emilia inadvertently opens Desdemona to Iago’s schemes by agreeing to allow Cassio access to Desdemona to beg for her help in recording him with Othello. Neither wormer realises the implications this decision will have.
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“What will you do with’t that you have been so earnest to have me flich it?
When Emilia gives Iago the infamos handkerchief, she instantly begins to suspect his motives in asking for it. When she dares to question him, he tunes on her and send her away
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“They are all but stomachs and we all but food; to eat us hunger, and when they are full, they belch us.”
Emilia is full of experience and wisdom which she often shares with Desdemona. Here she warns him about the nature of men. It is obvious to the audience that there are issues in Emilia’s and Iago’s marriage and that he treats her badly. We do not, however
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“But jealous souls will not be assured so, they are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they are-jealous, ‘tis a monster begot upon itself, born of itself.”
Just as Iago warns Othello to beware of jealously, Emilia tells Desdemona that jealously is a monster that eats at a person. We are aware that only one of the is sincere in this warning. Emilia acts as an honest echo of her dishonest husband.
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“I drust my lord, to wager she is honest, lay down my soul at stake.”
The word ‘honest’ is a clear motif in this play. Again we have Emilia’s sincere pronouncement that Desdemona is honest devalued by the fast that the word has been frequently used to describe her insincere husband.
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“I will hang’d if some eternal villain, some busy and insinuating rogue, some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, have not devised this slander.”
Shakespeare again uses irony. Emilia is right, that is exactly what happened. What he does not yet know is that her own husband is the rogue in question.
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“If he says so, may his pernicious soul rot half a grain a day? He lies to the heart.”
Finally, the truth hits Emilia and she realises that it is indeed Iago who has filled Othello’s head with lies that have led to him murdering the innocent Desdemona. She dies at the hands of her husband, but she does so leaving the audience with a strong
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“I will bestow you where you shall time to speak your bosom freely.”

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Emilia inadvertently opens Desdemona to Iago’s schemes by agreeing to allow Cassio access to Desdemona to beg for her help in recording him with Othello. Neither wormer realises the implications this decision will have.

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“What will you do with’t that you have been so earnest to have me flich it?

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“They are all but stomachs and we all but food; to eat us hunger, and when they are full, they belch us.”

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“But jealous souls will not be assured so, they are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they are-jealous, ‘tis a monster begot upon itself, born of itself.”

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