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Marriage
- Context: In Elizabethan times, arranged
marriages were the norm and in most cases, the
woman had no idea of who she was marrying.
After marriage, the woman legally became her
husband's property. Marriages were arranged
by the father (typically of the bride) and women
were married as young as 12, with this being 14
in men. Interracial weddings were heavily
frowned upon, as was eloping to marry a
man/woman that had not been approved
- BRABANTIO'S
VIEWS ON D&O'S
MARRIAGE
- 'O, thou foul thief, where hast
thou stowed my daughter?'
Nota:
- Act 1, Scene 2
- 'foul thief' suggests that he sees
Desdemona as his 'property' and
that she is something to be owned.
He shows anger towards the fact that
she has been 'stolen' from him by
Othello, which heightens his anger
because Othello is a black man
- 'Damned as thou art, thou hast enchanted her! For I'll
refer me to all things of sense, if she in chains of magic
were not bound, whether a maid so tender, fair, and
happy, so opposed to marriage that she shunned the
wealthy curlèd darlings of our nation, would ever have, to
incur a general mock, run from her guardage to the sooty
bosom of such a thing as thou - to fear, not to delight!
Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense that thou
hast practiced on her with foul charms, abused her
delicate youth with drugs or minerals that weaken motion'
Nota:
- Act 1, Scene 2
- He claims that Othello must have put a spell
on Desdemona in order for her to marry him,
because if she had declined all of the upper
class, approved men in Venice, then why
would she marry him? (Accusing black men of
witchcraft was typical of the time as they
were seen to be conspiring with the Devil
- His voicing of dislike
towards Othello's marriage
to Desdemona plays on
the fear of miscegenation
- 'O, thou foul thief, where hast
thou stowed my daughter?'
- IAGO'S SUSPICIONS
ON OTHELLO RUINING
HIS MARRIAGE
- 'I hate the Moor: and it is thought
abroad, that 'twixt my sheets 'has
done my office. I know not if't be
true, but I, for mere suspicion in
that kind, will do as if for surety'
Nota:
- Act 1, Scene 3
- Claims that Othello has
slept with his wife, Emilia,
which is another motive
for his revenge on Othello
- 'has done my office' has connotations of
doing my job, suggesting that it was a
man's 'job' to have sex with his wife. This
links to men being the superior gender
and how women were suppressed by them
- 'Abuse him to the
Moor in rank garb
for I fear Cassio with
my nightcap too'
Nota:
- Act 2, Scene 1
- He fears that Cassio has slept with his wife as
well. This suggests that Iago has an obsession
with infidelity and highlights the lack of trust he
has in Emilia (probably because he barely knows
her). This also supports the fact that women
were stereotypically sexually promiscuous
- 'I hate the Moor: and it is thought
abroad, that 'twixt my sheets 'has
done my office. I know not if't be
true, but I, for mere suspicion in
that kind, will do as if for surety'
- IAGO'S
MANIPULATION OF
OTHELLO THROUGH
HIS MARRIAGE
- IAGO: 'She did deceive her
father, marrying you...'
OTHELLO: 'And so she did'
Nota:
- Act 3, Scene 3
- Iago claims that a woman
who deceives her father is
likely to treat her husband
the same way, manipulating
Othello to believe the same
thing. Rather than seeing her
willingness to elope as a sign
of loyalty, Othello believes
that it is a prelude to
infidelity
- IAGO: 'She did deceive her
father, marrying you...'
OTHELLO: 'And so she did'
- OTHELLO'S VIEWS
ON MARRIAGE
- 'O curse of marriage, that we can call
these delicate creatures ours and not
their appetites! I had rather be a toad
and live upon the vapor of a dungeon
than keep a corner in the thing I love for
others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague of great
ones; prerogatived are they less than
the base. 'Tis destiny unshunnable, like
death. Even then this forked plague is
fated to us when we do quicken'
Nota:
- Act 3, Scene 3
- This suggests that he believes that it
is in a man's destiny to become a
'cuckold'. Therefore, it is easier to
understand why Othello was so
easily manipulated by Iago, despite
having never shown real evidence
- 'What sense had I of her stol'n hours
of lust? I saw 't not, thought it not; it
harmed not me. I slept the next
night well, fed well, was free and
merry. I found not Cassio's kisses on
her lips. He that is robbed, not
wanting what is stol'n, let him not
know 't, and he's not robbed at all'
Nota:
- Act 3, Scene 3
- After finding out
about Desdemona's
alleged affair with
Cassio, Othello says
that he would rather
not have known
- Can also comment on the language
in 'He that is robbed' as he treats
Desdemona as if she is his property
-> this can be compared to the
language and beliefs of Brabantio at
the beginning of the play when
Othello 'steals' Desdemona from him
- 'O curse of marriage, that we can call
these delicate creatures ours and not
their appetites! I had rather be a toad
and live upon the vapor of a dungeon
than keep a corner in the thing I love for
others' uses. Yet 'tis the plague of great
ones; prerogatived are they less than
the base. 'Tis destiny unshunnable, like
death. Even then this forked plague is
fated to us when we do quicken'
- EMILIA
- 'I am glad I have found this napkin. This was
her first remembrance from the Moor. My
wayward husband hath a hundred times
Wooed me to steal it. But she so loves the
token (For he conjured her she should ever
keep it) that she reserves it evermore about
her to kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en
out and give 't Iago. What he will do with it
heaven knows, not I. I nothing but to please
his fantasy'
Nota:
- Act 3, Scene 3
- Despite Iago's
constant abuse,
Emilia still yearns
for his love and
approval, linking to
how women were
inferior and had to
do right by men
- 'I am glad I have found this napkin. This was
her first remembrance from the Moor. My
wayward husband hath a hundred times
Wooed me to steal it. But she so loves the
token (For he conjured her she should ever
keep it) that she reserves it evermore about
her to kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en
out and give 't Iago. What he will do with it
heaven knows, not I. I nothing but to please
his fantasy'
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