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Shakespeare's Treatment Of Women In Othello

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According to this society women were meant only to marry. They had responsibilities of house management and child rearing. Women were thought to be physiologically and psychologically weaker to men. Men considered women to be possessions. The only power that women do seem to be able to use – their sexual power - is considered to be an ‘evil’ which must be resisted by the men in society. Men seem free to be able to refer to women as ‘whores’ and get away with it. The language that Shakespeare gives to his female characters suggests that they got used to the society’s expectations of them, and apart from in moments of private conversation, behave as men expect, believing this to be ‘natural’.
As we go through Othello we will notice that the women
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