Desdemona Tragic Hero

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Somebody says that men and women are the two wheels of the same cart which implies them two are deficient without each other. As take a look from the antiquated time to current period a large portion of the circumstances women scarifies more than the men's. . In Shakespeare Othello, it is apparent to perceive how ladies scarify their life against the men world. . Either Desdemona or Emilia both scarifies their life in their ways. From Shakespeare Othello, Desdemona can consider as a tragic heroine because her sacrifices, she has to hold up under a discipline without a mistakes, does not make a contention to demonstrate what the truth is.
Desdemona scarifies one of the greatest factors to consider her as a tragic heroine. She is scarifying from …show more content…

It is so miserable to get a discipline to those whose does not have any blame. On the setting of Othello, she has turned into the casualty of bearing the discipline without committing any error. For the most part it appears as though women’s are getting rebuffed with no slip-ups. For instance, on the Shakespeare Othello, Desdemona is the one. She gets the discipline without committing an error, however real offender is Iago. Othello is good for others as he is a decent pioneer and doing equity to his people whereas he doesn't do any equity to his wife. He supposed to know what the truth is before taking action by just whatever the brainwash did by Iago to him. . If he does not have trust on his wife he can figure out what’s the actual matter by following her secretly. As specify by Iago to him that Desdemona engages in extramarital relations with Casio, he was lot of alternatives to identify what is the reality. For instance, observing how often and where they meet and so …show more content…

Based on the story Desdemona can consider as a tragic heroine because she has to hold up under a discipline without a mistakes, does not make a contention to demonstrate what reality is, her sacrifices from beginning to end of the story. Women should not remain silent against their men activities rather than that they should know what is happening to their men and reacting to the way they did. First trying to find own mistakes and if there is no mistake of own then don’t remain silence try to know what’s the real matter. If Desdemona wanted to figure it out what her mistakes are, and what’s the matter of her husband by which his behavior is changing then maybe she does not have to loss her life by blaming herself as responsible for her

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