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Typically, love is presented as rendering women helpless victims (NO: it…
Typically, love is presented as rendering women helpless victims
YES: in love women are either idealised or denigrated, but either way this leads to mistreatment by their husbands
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YES: the women are ultimate victims as both D & E are punished for their husband's mistakes and personal flaws
Desdemona is a victim of Othello's jealousy and insecurity in their relationship, and society
Emilia is constantly mistreated and then killed by her own husband for expressing her independence and morality
NO: men are the victims of love; the way they behave conveys that they also feel pain and insecurity in relationships
Othello is a victim of insecurity and manipulation which destroys him because he lives and loves so passionately
his idealised perceptions of Desd. lead him to become distraught and unstable as a result of this = real tragic victim
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NO: it is not just love, it is venetian society that renders women and many other characters as helpless victims
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the moral chaos of the setting means that many characters are left as 'outsiders', insecure or mistreated