Emilia

Emilia

1. Iago's wife

   • Distrustful of her husband
     • she speaks disparagingly of men, but, until the last scene, she supports her husband when needed
       • when she sees the truth Emilia abandons all loyalty to Iago and verbally attacks him for the villain he is
   • cynical about men

2. she is deeply attached to her mistress

3. a women of practical intelligence and emotional resilience

   • Dynamic and a "Feminist"

4. Is racially prejudice

5. Why dose Emilia exist

   • To steel the handkerchief
   • To make a feminist speech

6. Emilia is oppressed as all women were in this era however due to her intellect she is constantly ridiculed and abused by her husband although her spirt is let loose in front of her mistress (Desdemona)

   • "tis not a year or too show us a man:they are all but stomachs, and we all but food; to eat us hungerly, and when they are full, they belch us. Look you,cassio and my husband!"