The women characters of othello, who do not object to being mis-treated by the male characters of othello

'The Women Characters of Othello are the Compliant Victims of a Male-dominated World' Expand. The three main female characters in the play at some point show that they are the compliant victims of male dominance. Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca each show them selves up in the sense that that they are allowing themselves to be victimised in the male-dominated world within Othello. We can see that these three female characters are victimised because of the …showed first 75 words of 1017 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1017 total…stronghold. This means that they will be more compliant to the men because they don't really have much choice. They are surrounded by men for the whole play, so for them to object would be to suffer severe consequences. The fact that they live in an era of male-domination and with soldiers in a stronghold makes it extremely hard for them to offer their opinions or stand up for themselves because it was deemed wrong.