The cultural context within this Shakespearean text certainty dictates the difficulties faced by the character, Desdemona, more specifically her struggles as a woman and how she is treated as a result of this. Her entire experiences within the play are negatively influenced by others which lead her to her unfortunate death. For example, Iago concocts his master plan knowing full well it will end poorly for Desdemona (and the other woman) but he does so carelessly as he believes he has the superiority as well as the justification to do so. That being said, it is clear that Iago lacks respect for most people but it is just quite interesting how, not just Desdemona but as well as Emilia finish in such disturbing deaths. Emilia was attempting to stick up for her Desdemona and not relinquish and it ended horribly for and on the flip side Desdemona didn’t fight and did concede and it still ended horribly for her. So I think what we can take from that is a quite melancholy reality that the women in this play no matter what decision they would decide to make, it wouldn’t matter because it would still end depressingly for them.
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