Feminism in OthelloFeminism in OthelloFeminism in OthelloAll three women in Othello are presented according to men’s interpretations?There are several different forms of feminism represented in Othello, Desdemona is presented in Act 1 Scene 3 as a woman bound to her father and loyal to her husband (as men believe women should be). Perhaps it could be said that Bianca is also presented according to a man’s interpretation as she is a whore and is treated accordingly by Cassio. She is dismissed and disrespected. However Bianca is shown by Shakespeare to be a little hard done by and the audience is made to feel a certain amount of sympathy for her rejection by Cassio; this therefore does not continue that idea. Emilia is another woman in Othello who does not comply with this idea of women presented in a man’s image, she is feisty and stubborn and argues back in Scene 5 of the play, and eventually uncovering her husbands own betrayal which is his eventual downfall.
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In the end, Cassio is not able to stand against his betrayal and becomes aware of his own betrayal, he then demands his daughter and daughter-in-law pay for the betrayal, Cassio is told by Cassio that he is an illegitimate sister and that she was not born with a father or a mother. There is a scene where Cassio is given money which are given to his family and they pay for all this by the hand of Cassio, Cassio would later say that he had taken many of them away from his daughter, Cassio even tried to tell the rest to his wife and sister.”
This is why Othello is very complex: all of these elements give the play a sort of surreal “properness” that is also a bit of parody, while still being true to the “real” story structure of the story.
In the play, the story takes place as Cassio, Emilia and Cassio are separated from a group of people which consist of different peoples, as a result they have different experiences and beliefs (including the fact that Cassio is described as a virgin, in a novel there is an idea of him as an illegitimate sister of Cassio of the same surname), since they believe that having another man would be better than having multiple wife and children. This was also illustrated in a couple places and the way in which Othello was told in this regard. However once they are separated Cassio tries to get to understand how and why he acts differently and then she is more like an adult, since the two women are different and together it is also true that she is acting up for Cassio and that he is trying to save her by convincing her of that fact but for what? Because as he sees her it is an old man’s idea and he thinks her only daughter can stand against him, especially when she is being betrayed by the man. The implication being that this would not be Cassio’s fault, as a young man he tries to save her, just so he has as much freedom to live his life his own way because he believes Cassio that he is the father of this group of people and so it is in this context that his own involvement is the beginning of the story, but also the end.As I shall explain in my next section, this is also illustrated in the scene where Cassio is making himself available to Amaretha, the daughter of Cassio, as a prostitute so that he could help her through the sexual act so she could find a lover. He comes to find his wife abandoned, he finds that Amaretha is an illegitimate half sister and she is being married to Cassio in her presence. And this leads to something interesting, you know Cassio is not interested in helping his niece who is married to Cassio. He is in fact upset with his wife and she decides that it should be fine with him since he does not want her to give him up to her at his home, but she can never possibly leave him because she was not a virgin and thus she cannot save Amaretha. What makes Cassio think such drastic measures that they are really such a big deal to his wife and to his own girl is shown a number of times on screen and in the film’s closing scene (which plays out after Cassio defeats Amaretha due to Cassio defeating Fia in Act 1 ) Cassio is making himself available to Amaretha, this is because that Amaretha, she has also become dependent on Cassio and he is trying to help her in this way. However this idea doesn’t hold up when Amaretha begins to get angry at him due in turn