Emilia Flashcards
Emilia believes her husband to be honest and genuinely concerned
‘it grieves my husband, as if the case were his.’
Iago has previously asked Emilia to steal the handkerchief
‘My wayward husband hath a hundred times Woo’d me to steal it’
Emilia will do anything to please Iago
‘I nothing but to please his fantasy.’
Emilia questions Desdemona as to whether Othello may be jealous
‘Is he not jealous?’
Emilia describes how men use women
‘They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; To eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us.’
Emilia unknowingly calls Iago a ‘wretch’
‘If any wretch have put this in your head,’
knave
‘some most villanous knave, Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.’
Emilia suggests any woman would do anything to make her husband more powerful
‘who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?’
Emilia claims men should take more responsibility for their wives’ wrongdoings
‘But I do think it is their husbands’ faults if wives do fall’
the men’s mistreatment of women
‘they slack their duties…Or else break out in peevish jealousies…or say they strike us’
Emilia wants people to know that women are just like men and have the same desires as them
‘Let husbands know their wives have sense like them: they see and smell and have their palates both for sweet and sour, as husbands have.’
Emilia implies that women also have sexual needs and desires
‘and have not we affections, desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?’
Emilia claims that women do wrong because they see their husbands also doing wrong
‘The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.’
angel and devil image
‘O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!’
Emilia screams murder
‘The Moor hath kill’d my mistress! Murder! murder!’
