Othello - Part Tres

Let's first start talking about Emilia. Even though she is the wife of Iago and friend/Batwoman to Desdemona, she kind of screws things up. Even though she isn't totally a dumb brawn, she is obedient towards Iago. She of course has to play the role of the wife and the woman. She listens to whatever Iago demands from her. I thought it was quite interesting of how Emilia thought things through. Emilia knew how special her "friend's" hankerchief was to her, yet she neglected her "friend" and she listened to her husband's desire to have the hankerchief. Since she may know that Iago suspects her sleeping with Othello, she plays the subordinate role in trying to make him happy by doing whatever he wants and to please him. It's like in any typical relationship; if you upset your significant other by doing something, you do several good deeds/acts in order to lessen the burden of the bad deed/act that you may have done. Yet, I still feel that all these stories are too gender discriminating, because I see it as it's all Emilia's fault. If she would have just left the darn hankerchief on the floor and went upon her own business, then Desdemona would have  ended up ... at what she ends up in. (I don't want to talk about what happens until my next blog.) It's just upsetting, because if she were that smart and witty, she should have stood her ground and left the piece of cloth on the floor, given it right back to Desdemona (if she really was a true friend or good servant) or just have denied Iago in the first place. I want to know whether Iago and Emilia have had more history together, or Desdemona and Emilia. I guess from the story, it's a bit vauge. Maybe it's the fact that Emilia was faced with the dilemma of deciding to pick between her own husband and her own [true/good] friend. Maybe it's because she knows that Iago has the hots for Desdemona, and she is just a sorry sap willing to do whatever to make her man happy and win him back. Iago probably makes Emilia feel guilty for no reason, because he wants Desdemona and he could careless for Emilia. What ever the reason may be, it seems to always be the chick's fault. 


This reminds me about the movie "Splice." It has two biochemists, who both happen to be a happy couple, and of course the woman is the one who causes the problem to begin with. By the end of this movie, I was like "Arg! This is what the media does to make woman look bad, but eh, the movie was interesting enough."


It's super dumb for Othello to automatically listen to Iago's insinuations. He doubts himself, which could be his heroic flaw, yet again, it could be him being so trusting. He trusts everything that Iago says, yet I don't understand why Othello couldn't have just made some "small talk" with Cassio and Desdemona. If he wanted to be so blunt about it, then so be it. He should have not jump so wuick to conclusions without understanding and knowing all the stories. How close is Othello and Iago? What was their past history? Is it because Iago is his servant, and Othello always confides in Iago?


In the beginning, when Othello disembarked from his ship, he kissed Desdemona and showed her his devotion. Where was this love and passion when he heard all these rumors? This shows Othello's weak psyche. Here Othello's mind takes the best of him, where he no longer can trust his own wife. What happen to their love? Was it just sex? Was it because was known as a "good guy" that he could not be found fooling around with the senator's wife before being ever married? Whatever the case may be, Othello revealed his weakness.