Othello - Women
In the play Othello, Shakespeare instills the gender rules for women, but toys with the idea of women breaking the rules. Desdemona becomes the victim of her own decision in disobeying the rules. Desdemona suffers before she dies consequently for her actions. Desdemona appears to follow the gender rules, but she makes the fatal decision of breaking one rule, which lead to more broken rules. Desdemona's mistakes in breaking the gender rules cause her to lose everything she has.Desdemona is often overlooked as the average person who obeys the rules instead of the true nature inside of her. The Desdemona's true nature is revealed early in the play when she says, "I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband, and so much duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much I challenge that I may profess" (I.iii.203-205). Desdemona's defiance of not just an elder, but her father Brabantio c
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Approximate Word count = 623
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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