Othello: Emilia the Grander one Essay -- English literature, Shakespear

Othello, the tragic play write by William Shakespeargon in 1601 has given a new outlook to womens right during the time period when they had no voice to c every their own. A tragic play about a jealous and hu gay beingipulative man named Iago who does everything in his tycoon to pursue and destroy the life of the protagonist, Othello. In the belief that Othello had wrongfully promoted someone else to the position that he claims to be rightfully his. In this play, unsure if this was the intention of Shakespeare, but Shakespeares two main egg-producing(prenominal) characters each embodies a completely different bias about women and womens liberation movement during the Elizabethan time period. Shakespeare encircles Othellos plot and themes around its male characters all the while concurrently but indirectly shed light to the secret anti-parallel dynamic among the livelihood of women. Desdemona, Othellos wife, the more traditional female character, believes in putting her husband first and that love is all that matters. On the anformer(a)(prenominal) hand, Emilia, Iagos wife and one of Desdemonas dearest friends, is portrayed as the stronger feminist in the play and believes in womens right and that women are physically no different to men. To place this assumption into retrospect, in Shakespeare time, from the 1558 to the 1600s, England community was ruled by Queen Elizabeth. Although a women took ownership of the country, in Elizabethans inn married women and minor girls were entirely in the power of their husband and guardianship of their father. None the less, even after Elizabeth I took the throne, she was anticipate to wed and have her rights to rule limited or completely dissipate up by her husband (Wagner, 21). Women living in a society built upon Renaissance beliefs were only m... ... when his lies and deceits destroys innocent lives. In correlation to Shakespeares time and with his character Emilia, women should see that in order for a ma n to successfully thrive, it takes a strong-will and outspoken woman to back him up. On the other hand, afraid of societal and dynamical change, men can only allay change with death like Iago did to Emilia. Works Cited1.Shakespear, William. Othello, the Moor of Venice. Literature blind and Voice. Eds. Nicholas Del Banco and Alan Cheue. 2en ed. New York Mc Graw Hill, 2012. 1202-1271. Print.2.Feminist Criticism (1960s- present). Purdue OWL Literary scheme and Schools of Criticism. Web.25 Apr 2014. 3.Chojnacki, Stanley. Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. Baltimore trick Hopkins UP,2000. 115-169. Ebook.