Shakespeare’s_Portrayal_Of_Women

Shakespeare’s Portrayal Of Women Shakespeare tends to portray women very much alike in both Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In both stories one can clearly see that Shakespeare sees women as very dependant people. He portrays them to be nothing without their male counter-part in both plays. In Shakespeare’s play Othello, the three women play a vital role. Only one of the women in the play survives, and all the women have no separate identity within the play. Bianca is the mistress of Cassio, Emilia is married to Iago, and Desdemona is married to Othello. This same type of scenario is present in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Hermia and Helena are chasing Lysander and Demetrius throughout the entire play. Right away you can see how Shakespeare must have viewed women. He obviously viewed them as people of society whose existence was only relevant to that of a man. In both plays the women are almost laughed at as well. There is a cruel sense of insecurity that lies in Helena throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream, that even when Lysander falls for her because of the love potion, she won’t believe it. She feels as though women, play, very, othello, night’s, midsummer, dream, both, shakespeare’s, shakespeare, even, plays, one, men, lysander, iago, dependant, weak, vital, viewed, time, thysbe, throughout, suicide, situation, seem, same, pyramus, portrays, people, much, married, helena, falls, expect