Macbeth

Literary texts are always concerned with the construction of gender and the meaning of belonging to one sex or the other. In the play Othello, by William Shakespeare the gender construction is used to define the roles of men and woman during the time in which the play was written, the Elizabethan era. The characters of Othello, Iago, Desdemona and Emillia are utilized to represent the different aspects of these roles with in their particular …

…seen as little more than object of affection who’s purpose in life lay in marriage and raising a family .They played a little role in controlling even their own lives as they did not make their own decisions but simply followed orders from their ‘superior’ male counterparts .Through this Shakespeare play has allowed the reader gain a insight into the meaning of belonging to one sex or the other in society during the 1600s.