Power+Group


 * || **Desdemona** || **Emilia** || **Bianca** ||
 * Intelligence || Clueless and flighty || Smart, but no common sense || Street smart and witty ||  ||   ||
 * Philosophy on living || Dependent idealist || Realist and pessimist || Independent ||
 * Closer to heaven || Right up there || Mid way, but striving to be closer || Farthest from heaven, she has sex out of wedlock (“She’ll fry in the skillet of the devil!”) ||
 * Wealth || She got money, and she knows it. She takes it out of her pockets and shows it, then throws it. || Has money, but wants to rise in the social standings. Acts higher and treats Bianca terribly to make herself feel better. || Poor class. Lives day by day and makes money any way she can. Prostitution mainly ||
 * Want || Othello || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Iago’s attention and Desdemona’s status || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">More of a commitment from Cassio ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Commitment || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">100% dedicated towards Othello’s love. She would betray her own father to be with him || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Betrayed her best friend in order to please Iago. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Woman of the night. What do you think? ||
 * Fear || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Afraid of losing Othello. Even on her death bed when he was clearly murdering her, she said that it was her fault to try to protect him. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Afraid of being alone. Tries everything to keep friends and Iago, even though he is unsatisfied with her. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Has no fear ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Friendship || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Very strong friendship. Tries to help Cassio and treats Emilia wonderfully. “Treats others the way she wants to be treated” || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Strives to be Desdemona’s friend, but betrays her for her own desires. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Stands alone ||
 * Thesis Statement: During the times of Renissance everything a women had was because of her husband. The womens wealth, reputation and the way she carried herself was based on the status of the person she was married with.**

-Desdemona is kind, sweet and tries to help others.(Top) -Emilia is a middle class woman. She is friends with Desdemona which is in the higher class but frowns upon Bianca which is a woman from the lower class.(Middle) -Bianca is from the lower class but doesn't really have any self respect. She will do anything to survive.(Bottom)
 * The three female characters from Othello**

Pg.37 "Our general's wife is now the general". - Woman hold the power of their husband. Iago says this to Cassio to advice him that Desdemona can persuade Othello into hiring him back. Pg.23"Sir, would she give you so much of her lips ,As of her tongue she oft bestows on me, You 'ld have enough". -Iago is suggesting that women only nag and nag. Pg.24 "Players in your house wifery, and housewives in your bed". Pg.24 " You rise to play, and go to bed to work". - Women are only good on their backs. Pg.41 " But I will have my lord and you again, As friendly as you were". -Desdemona is conversating with Cassio assuruing him that she will get Othello to forgive him for his brute behavior. Pg. 18 "She has decieved her father, and may thee. Pg.24 " You rise to play and go to bed to work". Pg.49 Emilia steals the napkin. Pg.68 "I'll not expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovided my mind again". -If has sex with her he will not be able to kill her. This shows how much love he has for her in a weird creepy way. Pg. 81 "Fie, fie upon thee strumpet. -Emilia is calling Bianca a dirty girl. Pg. 85 "Nobody: I myself". Pg.87 "...that handkerchief thou speak'st of I found by fortune and did give my husband".

-Desdemona is a good wife and will not betray her husband until death do them part. - Emilia the realist, hurt woman and a neglected wife. -Bianca is classified as the whore of the book.

"Chuck" and "catiff" bad words to call woman. Pg.57 "They are all but stomachs and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full they belch us up". Pg.77 Emilia says to Desdemona Why can't women hurt men like men hurt women.
 * Men just use Women**

Althoughthe three women were in different classes they all shared a common desire. All of these women had the desire of want from a man.
 * Conclusion Statement: Othello characterization of women reflects that women during the times of the renissance women did practically to keep a man around.**

Shakespeare's Unruly Women" In Shakespeare's play Othello Shakespeare portrayed women as not being trustworthy, and they live to please their husbands. If a woman did not live to satisfy her husband, she basically had nothing to live for.

This is a upper class renissance women, she protrays Desemona. This is a merchant class renissance women, she portrays Emilia.

This lower class but not very poor women portrays Bianca.