Emilia in Othello: A complete Transformation

During the sixteenth century, men were fitting to control their wives and women were not able to speak discover against their husbands, including genus genus Emilia, a character in William Shakespe bes play Othello, is all underestimated by every character, including her husband, Iago. In the beginning of the play, Emilia is submissive, except in the end she transforms and stands up to her husband and doesnt let him get away with some(prenominal) of his manipulations. At the beginning of the play, Emilia is arrestly submissive and couldnt argue with Iago whatsoever, no matter what he said and she was willing to do anything, as massive at it helped him succeed.When Iago talks about women, he really has nothing pure to say. In fact, when Iago is slandering women and talking about Emilia and she doesnt stand up to him, lonesome(prenominal) Desdemona does, telling Iago to stop talking about Emilia so harshly. He says, players in your huswifery and huswives in your bed, saying th at women are only good for make clean and in bed (2. 1. 121-125). Iago goes on to say women talk to much and are practically useless. Desdemona refutes Iago, but Emilia cannot.An some other example of Emilias submission is when she and Desdemona are talking about why people cheat and Emilia says that she would cheat on her husband, not if there was any benefit to her, but if it would benefit her husband, she wouldnt com fix upe twice (4. 3. 81-87). Emilia begins the play only submissive to her husband and unavailing to defend herself against the awful things he says. Then, towards the middle of Act five, Emilia begins to put Iagos manipulations together and is wary of his motivations.As soon as Emilia hears that Desdemona has been killed, she, Othello and Iago are speechmaking and Emilia begins to question Iago, saying, disprove this villian if universal gravitational constant best a man, Iago responds saying that he told Othello what he thought was true and Emilia continues t o try and figure out what Iago has spun together (5. 2. 210-214). Then, when Emilia pieces more of Iagos complex puzzle of manipulations, she begins to get godforsaken saying to Iago, you told a lie, an odious, damned lie Upon my soul, a lie, a painful lie (5. 2.216-218).Emilia makes an accusation, claiming her husband is the reason everyone has been killed, in front of many a(prenominal) other men. This was extremely bold of her because during this time, women were taught to obey their husbands. Emilia is the one who Iago shouldve known best, the easiest to trick, but instead shes the only one who can and does begin to reveal Iagos complete manipulations of every single other character. Here, Emilia begins her complete transformation from being completely submissive to defying Iagos commands.As the drama continues, Emilia completely reveals Iagos manipulations along with the many lies that he has told all the other characters. Emilia finally puts all the pieces of Iagos meshw ork of manipulations together, and realizes the complete terror that he has caused. When Emilia is questioning Iago, he tells her to be quiet and leave them alone. Emilia responds back angrily, I will not charm my tounge. I am bound to speak. My mistress here lies slay in her bed (5. 2. 220-221) Emilia knows what has happened and knows that she needs to tell everyone before the slip gets even worse and even more people die.Then, Emilia continues on telling everyone what happened and Iago continues to threaten her to be quiet. Here, Emilia begins her ultimate reveal. She tells Othello, O thou dull moor, that hankercheif thou speakst of, I found my fortune, and did give my husband-For often, with a grievous earnestness, more than indeed belonged to such a trifle, he begged of me to steal it (5. 2. 267-272) Emilia finally tells everyone that she is the one who found the hankercheif, that Cassio did not get the hankercheif from Desdemona and that there is no way Desdemona was cheatin g on Othello.The end of act five is where Emilia completely makes her transformation from being an silent, obedient wife, to accusing her husband of rack up in public. Therefore, Emilia is underestimated by every character because of her complete loyalty to her husband, Iago. Then, as Iagos plans come to light, Emilia is the first to solve Iagos puzzle of manipulations and need them to light in front of many other Venetian men, which was completely surprising to everyone because women at this time were not meant to speak out in public against their husbands and their husbands were supposed to have their wives in complete submission.