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  1. Jul 2025
  2. Apr 2024
    1. 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

      Firstly, sort of an allusion to Adam and Eve, since Eve is built of Adam, so what Adam has is inherited or learnt by Eve. Secondly, she is one of the first characters to accept their vices, and therefore be immune or unbelieving to the devil (Iago's whispers). She sees him not as a honest man.

    2. Why the wrong is but a wrong i' th' world, and havingthe world for your labor, ’tis a wrong in your ownworld, and you might quickly make it right

      Does this point to personal truths and the rejection of black and white morality? Is Emilia true to herself, not trying so hard to grasp humanity through the external rules of morality?

    3. Why, who would not make her husband acuckold to make him a monarch?

      Emilia seems to be a little looser around pride and civility -- it seems she has her own convictions. I wonder what this implies, and how her interaction with Iago might show that? What is her significance? She is the WIFE of Iago, that may say something.

  3. Mar 2024
  4. Nov 2022