Women Are always Victims Because It Is Men who Determine Social Organisation." Consider the Ways the Representation of Men and Women in "Othello" Supports or Challenges This Assumption

Women are usually but not always the only victims of the social organisation created by men. In Shakespeare's famous tragic drama, "Othello", numerous characters, both male and female, are represented negatively and through their suffering the audience feels sympathy towards them. Desdemona's rebellion against her family in eloping with Othello, a black army general, results in her untimely death. Emilia, on the other hand, is compliant, to the patriarchal society, to a point whereby she becomes an unwitting tool for her husband. Othello and Cassio are both represented as being outsiders.…