Theme Of Patriarchy In Othello

The dominance of a female character in a book or play is very important, for a society to understand and preserve them in such a manner. A book or a play demonstrates what can and cannot happen if one chooses to make such a choice. For years female characters have been perceived as undependable, and fragile. Both the book, Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, and play Othello by William Shakespear, support patriarchy, through perceptions of predominantly female characters, female dominance within the book, and lastly the societal transformation brought about by females. Both of the stores are taken place in a 16th and 17th century where women's power and roles in society were very limited.

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We can see that in countless books males have particularly been able to bring more change to a society than a female. In the book the Outlander, this isn't the case. Claire who is a woman that travelled back from time, into the 17th century has brought tremendous change to her society in the short amount of time she is there. Starting off with, Claire has made a substantial improvement in educating many of the males that were in her life, such as Jamie, Rupert, McKinzy, who at first thought that a woman's place was at home, but with time their experiences with Clare and proven them incorrect. Claire says; “I have lived through a fucking world war,” - “I have lost a child. I have lost two husbands. I have starved with an army, been beaten and wounded, been patronised, betrayed, imprisoned, and attacked. And I have fucking survived!” - “And now should I be shattered because some wretched, pathetic excuses for men stuck their nasty little appendages between my legs and wiggled them?!”- “Well, I won’t,” I said quite calmly.” (Chapter 29 Gabaldon) Claire tells the readers all that she has been through and how none of it has made her any weaker, but stronger, and that she will not back out of this problem just because everyone else is. Jamie understands this and talks to her about it, finally accepting that Claire is also human and that her crying or being hurt about something isn’t just because she is a female, but because there is actually a problem. In the beginning of the book, Claire faced many sexist remarks such as being called a “Whore” (Chapter 3 Gabaldon) just because she will not lower her voice so that men can decide what to do with her, too her planning roots for the military to take in order to win against the British. This change is tremendous as Claire forces to earn the respect of the fellow male characters in the story, without looking or using her as an object, but a human who has