William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... From the beginning of the play, we see that Desdemona is a courageous and decisive woman who pursues Othello, falling in love with his intrigued stories of adventure, seeing "Othello's visage in his mind, and to his honors and valiant parts..." refusing the attempts of other suitors such as Roderigo. ... When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power in society. ... She is aware of th...

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Strong Women of Othello William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... From the beginning of the play, we see that Desdemona is a courageous and decisive woman who pursues Othello, falling in love with his intrigued stories of adventure, seeing "Othello's visage in his mind, and to his honors and valiant parts..." refusing the attempts of other suitors such as Roderigo. ... When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power...

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"The diction and syntax were consciously unliterary" (Benet pg 37) is a description of one of the many ways Anderson wrote. ... Anderson furthermore "rebelled against what he termed the "poison plot"--that is, fiction written according to standardized formulas, readily marketable but unrealistic as portrayals of actual human beings and human experience - in favor of stories which developed their individual shapes "organically" out of the play of the imagination over observed reality" (DISCovering). ...

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And thirdly, Boccaccio's personal beliefs must have played an important role in the construction of sex within the tales. ... The theme of lustful attraction and ensuing sexual intercourse is played over and over throughout the book without second thought from the characters, except on occasion only for the purpose of figuring out how to manage it without word leaking out. ... As Boccaccio "wrote the truth about friars (802)" we see that he is under the belief that even the religious cannot escape carnal desires like "putting the devil back in hell." ...

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