Women In The Jacobean Era

Task One
The Role of Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times
The Elizabethan era was 1558 – 1603. In this time, women were, in short terms, under the dominance of men. They depended on the males in their families for the income and to support the household and family.
Generally, upper class women were used as pawns in arranged marriages in order to create a more powerful family. This was done by marrying them into other upper class families. There had been very few disagreements over these arrangements because, for their whole lives, women had been taught that they were not as important as men, and that their place was below men.
The upper class women were tutored at home, as girls were not allowed to go to school; they were not allowed to

The main character then furthers the already standing conflict (generally explained at the beginning of the play) to the point in which their lives, families, or political structures are brought into it and ultimately are destroyed. The protagonist, sometimes the antagonist and many other leading characters end up without their lives throughout the play, mainly the ending in a dramatic final scene.
The concept of the Fatal Flaw in Shakespearean Tragedy is that a character has many flaws, but there is just one specific flaw that ends fatally for them. For example, Othello’s hamartia is jealousy, which ends in his death. Macbeth’s hamartia is his excessive ambition to become King, which leads to paranoia, and then leads to his death.
The Fatal Flaw in Shakespearian tragedies is what classifies the play under that genre. Whilst there is death and sadness in his other plays, to be sorted with his Tragedies the plays must end in the main character’s death brought upon them due to their own faults.
Critical Opinion of

His nature tends outward. He is quite free from introspection, and is not given to reflection. Emotion excites his imagination, but it confuses and dulls his intellect.”
“Othello’s nature is all of one piece. His trust, where he trusts, is absolute. Hesitation is almost impossible to him. He is extremely self-reliant, and decides and acts instantaneously.”
S.T Coleridge: “No doubt Desdemona saw Othello 's visage in his mind; yet, as we are constituted, and most surely as an English audience was disposed in the beginning of the seventeenth century, it would be something monstrous to conceive this beautiful Venetian girl falling in love with a veritable Negro”
“Observe in how many ways Othello is made, first, our acquaintance, then our friend, then the object of our anxiety, before the deeper interest is to be