Shakespeare's Othello is about several things including love, hatred, zeal, jealousy, bravery, cowardice and also about women. There are three important women in the drama including Desdemona, Bianca and Emilia. None of the three earns love and satisfaction of the kind she expects. Desdemona's death in the drama seems like asking of the Venetian society, " Look what you do your innocent women". Othello strikes on the social norms of a male dominated society and shows how they have clipped their wings and made them subordinate creatures following their owners whim. Desdemona never gets to know where she erred and Emilia has very slight inkling of her husband's real face. Both have to die because their husbands fail to be husbands. Desdemona remains true and devoted but in return she gets only pain and punishment. Emilia thinks her husband is honest but at the end she too is subjected to a similar fate. Bianca is another woman that never gets an important status in a society of men. Shakespeare's Othello highlights how the societies that do not respect their women will perish.
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