... with a powerful black man. She is strong inside but doesn't tend to show that side of her as much as she would want to. She tends to play the peace-maker in her marriage and is always trying to understand Othello. Throughout the play she struggles to prove her loyalty and respect to her husband, no matter what it takes she ... with Emilia while she is waiting for Othello to return to the bedroom. Desdemona can not understand how a women could do that to any man, that was not in her book of marriage. Her innocence, her loyalty cost her to be very close minded, and not accept that a man w...

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... to insanity. John, the narrator's husband, plays the male role in the story. John is treated respectfully. John shows his dominance over the author. He is portrayed as the decision maker. "John is a physician," and not just a physician but a "physician of high standing"(92). In addition to providing for the family, John is also "very careful and loving" towards his wife ... with John's gender role, gradually Blasses3 forces the narrator into retreat and then to insanity. A woman, according to the gender roles of the society in the time in which the book was written, is supposed to be he...

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