Othello - Emilia

Question 1

Emilia as an upholder of female empowerment

Answer 1

• “They are all but stomachs, and we all but food”
• “They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they belch us.”
• “For if she be not honest, chaste, and true, There’s no man happy”
• “Speak within door.” / “O fie upon them!”
• “You told a lie, an odious damned lie”
• “‘Tis proper I obey him, but not now”

Question 2

Emilia as ambivalent

Answer 2

• “She let it drop… And to th’advantage, I, being here, took it up”
• “O, fie upon thee strumpet!”
• “She give it Cassio? No, alas, I found it and I did give’t my husband”