The Role Of Women in Shakespeares Othello Essays -- GCSE English Lite

The Role Of Women in Othello           In Shakespeares Othello, as in more or less writings of his fourth dimension, women are viewed as trophies or objects to capture the attention of men. I do non doubt that these men do love their wives, save the love, respect and admiration for their women is a lot different that of our time. It seems modern women are much more capable of having what could be known as an equal chance marriage. In the days of sacred virginity, and honesty of ones word, well off women such as Desdemona were not given responsibility. Women in her position sat substantiate and left the work up to their men and their servants. In due time they were given respect and admiration, and were seen as angels to be loved and cared for, but what does this authentically matter when one is unable to care for themselves, or have the actor to accomplish without being told that someone supposedly more powerful exit take care of it f or them? I feel that this misogyny and sexism is eternal and nonetheless now, our world suffers from it. Many say this has to do with the times and the period in which Shakespeare was writing. But still, in these times as existencey others, there were heap even then, that knew that misogyny and sexism were wrong, and must be changed. Unfortunately, it was not a common consensus.   In this play, the roles of women are perfectly laid out. Theres the well off smashing girl, the cute middle class girl who waits on the well to do girl. and then at the bottom of it all, there is the prostitute, slut that every man and boy has fantasized about. So in essence, men have it all in this play, every major fantasy, war, violence, and betrayal. So we see who Shakespeares writings catered to. ... ... They wager on their love for their husbands, and their husbands use it as power against them, abusing the ideals of trust and morality. (P.165)   some other issue that most do not de al with when it comes to writings uniform Shakespeare is the language used towards certain genres of people, especially women. In many do do male characters in this play call women wenches (p.139) or wreches (p.123). Then the men (Othello) say things like Nor from mine own weak merits give draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, For she had eyes, and chose me. (p.131) Men are acclamation when they do the slightest of gentlemanly acts, but never punished for speaking naughtily towards women. There needs to be some sort of revolt or revolution for these women and they would not be trapped in situations where they are not comfortable with themselves or their surroundings.