The Role Of Women In Utopia An

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a background behind More's image of women and his considering of them as more fragile. I will also be attempting to figure out just what is their role in his literary Utopia (and if these ideas are in any ways revolutionary, considering their time).
Brabianto has a false image of Desdemona believing her to be the perfect daughter, not realising she is mortal like all other daughters, "She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud-Ibid.". Because of this, he believes she is a daughter that would not elope "A maid so tender, fair and happy/so opposite to marriage". She is presented as different things in "Othello" First of all is Brabianto's aforementioned idea that she is the perfect daughter, and thus surely not like other daughters. "A maiden never bold, of spirit so still and quiet that her mation blush'd at herself". However, Desdemona also plays the part of the deceptive daughter, "She has deceiv'd her father, and may thee".
Her image ...

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a victim protecting her abuser.

Desdemona's various characteristics which all don't necessarily fit in with each other perhaps portray a truer picture of women than a one-sided all virtuous or all-evil heroine. She is presented as the perfect daughter at the start, but most wealthy fathers of the time probably considered their precious daughter "perfect". Her tainting after marriage with Othello is an example of the lack of distinction of wives from their husbands in Shakespearean times. Since a wife was almost only seen as an extension of her husband, it's not surprising but slightly disturbing that she was labelled "black" after marrying a black man. Also, Desdemona is constructed ...

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