COLONISATION OF WOMEN Flashcards
‘The purchase is made, the profit’s yet to come’
‘I won her daughter’
‘they all but stomachs and we all but food’
women accept objectification, ‘tasted her sweet body’
‘whateer you be, I am obedient’
‘ I nothing but to please his fantasy
10 syllabes, first two digit number, women lack independence, assigned with another partner
Even Emilia ‘I must be circumstanced’
resigned to silently obey the authority of their male lovers, promising uncomplaining service
staging: Desdemona is absent, only appears on stage when Othello demands she is summoned to appear before the senate’‘I
visually stages the expectation in 17th Century Venetian society that men control female affairs
I do perceive her a divided duty’ to you i am bound for life’
‘duty’ ‘bound’ servile language