Discuss the social context that influences Othello’s labelling of Desdemona as that “cunning whore of Venice”

In Othello many a(prenominal) issues argon underinterpreted. According to the time that the play was written, men hold all the power and women are considered to be of low intellect. Throughout the play Desdemona is a symbol of innocence and helplessness. At first she appears to be get along with and quite perceptive of events almost her. Iago often tells Othello that she is unfaithful. It seems that she refuses to accept what is happening and her views are impartial.She has a tendency to be sympathetic towards former(a) peoples situations, like Cassio. This is what triggers Othellos jealousy when Iago pointed out they were speaking in privacy. She often pays attention to other peoples thoughts yet remains cynical if they differ to her own. She has a loyalty to her husband in all aspects of life, whether it is affable or material.Othello shows us how a womans character, reputation and power can be manipulated and distorted by men. The family between Desdemona and Othello is very peculiar, and would have been considered even more so at the time at which Shakespeare was writing, it because stands out in the play, not least because it is a mixed-race marriage but also because at the pour down of the play they appear to be on an equal standing, they have a mutual respect for iodin another.We are presented with a very powerful image of women at the start of the play Desdemona has disobeyed her father and taken her chosen husband, although Desdemona does acknowledge that Othello is her Lord and that it is her duty to obey him. However, in that state, Desdemona does act as a dramatic device, bringing Othello into a domestic situation where he is inexperienced. This causes his obsession with Desdemona to grow because she has become his whole homo Iago finds it easy to manipulate this situation because Othello is unfamiliar to life only in the domestic side.Although Desdemona was rational in trusting, her trust was often misplaced, for example Iago. As well as this regardless of her intellect of what goes on around her in some cases, this was not enough to rise up in society, as women had no thought in the time of the play. Although Shakespeare undertook many recent day ideas, he did not do this for a modern day society, as it would not have allowed so many events to occur, and it would not have been considered realistic by the public.When Othello talks of wooing Desdemona he is portrayed as an eloquent storyteller and lover She gave me for my pain a world of sighs. It is through her relationship with Othello that his failure is shown not only by her spoilt opinion of him, he was previously an ideal to her, but by the end of the play she has realised that men are not gods, but also by Othellos swift dismissal of her as a fair devil and a lewd minx after his view of her where he would deny her nothing has been destroyed by Iago.The downslope of Othello is marked by the destruction of their once close and trusting relationship, which I ago has convinced Othello that it is a foul disproportion. Desdemonas physical and vocal absence from the opening scenes speaks about womens place in the Venetian society. It is through Desdemonas absence that we are able to conjure up our own mental image of her based on what we have heard.