“I nothing / but to please his fantasy”
'Twixt my sheets'
'You are pictures out of door,bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens, saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.'

Presentation of Emilia in 'Othello'

Gender Inequality

Shakespeare used her to raise gender issue in Elizabethan times

In Act 3, 4
Audience aware of men's attitude toward women and their point of view in Venetian women

Resonate of audiences' sense of injustice of woman in the society

Tolerates men’s affairs while women are bound to absolute fidelity

Her obedience to Iago

Willingness to steal HANDKERCHIEF for Iago

To reveal Iago’s manipulative powers and to move the plot forward that will ‘prove’ Desdemona’s adultery

Low self esteem

Intelligence

Dramatic tension

First to suspect Othello's true motive when he wanted her to be absence

Analysis of Othello’s behavior VS Othello’s raging passions

Awareness of men’s betrayals VS Desdemona's innocence and gullibility

Betrayal VS loyalty

Difference: Emilia protects Desdemona
Iago continues to manipulate Othello mercilessly

Similarity: Initially both Iago and Emilia betray those they serve

First Impression

Negative

Due to Iago's soliloquy
His suspicion of her infidelity with Othello