ohhh Othello

Othello and Desdemona together have many foibles that classify their relationship , in my mind, as illegitimate. For one, they don't communicate in anything other than smitten phrases that seem lilliputian and false. Just two ingenuous characters in the throws of young love ...but there is more to love than sheer admiration and image. To maintain a steady marriage, as I have heard, is a herculean task. And they don't seem to really be working on it at all. Then again, the audience does not see too much of their personal life together. But I feel like all we see are the cellophane wrapped Othello & Desdemona, and we while we know there is more to each of them, we cannot get underneaht. I want to perforate the layer on top that consists of sugary fluff that makes me question who is who, and not in a "i am he as you are he and you are me and we are all together," kind of way. Because that wasn't Shakespeare. Shakespeare preferred to deceive and have a seemingly ill-judged view of marriage which made his tales anything but soporific. There were the Desdemonas and the Emilias and the Lady Macbeths, all of which made me wonder what went on between him and Anne Hathaway and the exact influence of the time period, his own marriage, and his imagination on his writing. Clearly, the three women differ greatly in status. While Desdemona and Emilia up to the point of this reading, appear to be relatively servile, Lady Macbeth has a power that is rarely can be compromised. Did Shakespeare know that without the physical (and inevitably political) subjugation of woman by man, that woman would rule the world (as they obviously do today ;] ) ? Because the character Lady Macbeth quite almost explicitly cites this. Anyone who characterizes this truth
as bunkum, can take it up with me. Because honestly, behind every great man is an extraordinary woman. And behind every extraordinary woman, there is an unparalleled sense of self.