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Emilia Monologue (Othello) PDF

Emilia argues that while wives may fall due to their husbands' faults, they too have human desires and emotions like men do. If husbands neglect their duties to their wives or treat them poorly, wives have a right to feel anger and seek revenge, as they have senses and feelings similar to husbands. Wives should not be the only ones blamed if relationships fail.

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Emilia Monologue (Othello) PDF

Emilia argues that while wives may fall due to their husbands' faults, they too have human desires and emotions like men do. If husbands neglect their duties to their wives or treat them poorly, wives have a right to feel anger and seek revenge, as they have senses and feelings similar to husbands. Wives should not be the only ones blamed if relationships fail.

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  • Othello, Act IV, Scene 3

/NB?

FFI

Act IV, sc. 3 (line 85)

EMILIA

But I do think it is their husbands' faults

If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,

And pour our treasures into foreign laps,

Or else break out in peevish jealousies,

Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us,

Or scant our former having in despite;

Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,

Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know

Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell

And have their palates both for sweet and sour,

As husbands have. What is it that they do

When they change us for others? Is it sport?

I think it is: and doth affection breed it?

I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs?

It is so too: and have not we affections,

Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?

Then let them use us well: else let them know,

The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.

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