The Contributions Of Women In John Milton's Othello And Paradise Lost

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Women are often times seen as the acceptable person to blame when it comes to mistakes. It’s like if something goes wrong just blame the women and let the men be. Things use to be that men were the reason behind bad outcomes. The roles have switched without any evidence of why. Two works that portray this thought really well are Othello by Shakespeare and Paradise Lost by John Milton. Both works have women who are blamed for the outcomes that happen. Whether they are rightly or wrongly accused they are still accused. This happens a lot in society today. It’s like men can’t do any wrong and that things will always be the women fault in the situation. This is usually proven when the outcome is something negative. The first thought it the woman in the situation had to have done something. An overall theme for both literary works could be obedience. This can be applied to the literary works listed earlier. Eve disobeys God and Desdemona has disobeyed her husband and their marriage according to Othello.
In Shakespeare’s work Othello, Desdemona, which is Iago wife, is seen as being the cheater but she is
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It is safe to believe that women can hold much power in a relationship. They both have the power in the relationship mainly when they are seen as the heart breakers in the relationship. Disobedience is a big theme seen throughout Paradise Lost and Othello. There is intentional and unintentional disobedience. Desdemona disobeys unintentionally while Eve disobeys intentionally and also persuades Adam to disobey. Women are constantly being judged and looked down on. This is very much evident in these two literary works. The outcomes they encountered were bad so since there were bad outcomes the women held the power so they made the situation happen on their own without the help of anyone else. In to compare these works they are both about the disobedience of a significant person in the

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