Othello and Desdemona Relationship
I wonder how this behavior built in me if not by reading stories and stories about men–and only men–in power. In Elizabethan times, and as seen in the play Othello, the role of a woman was to remain submissive to her husband and raise his children. Women played a secondary role in the time when Othello is set. At the beginning of Act 2, Scene 3 of Othello we see that Othello describes Desdemona as his possession when he says, […]