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Let husbands knowTheir wives have sense like them. They see and smellAnd have their palates both for sweet and sour,As husbands have
Shakespeare's belief in equality between man and woman. Both have their own convictions ("palates") and tastes.
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And have not we affections,Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?Then let them use us well, else let them know,The ills we do, their ills instruct us so
Firstly, sort of an allusion to Adam and Eve, since Eve is built of Adam, so what Adam has is inherited or learnt by Eve. Secondly, she is one of the first characters to accept their vices, and therefore be immune or unbelieving to the devil (Iago's whispers). She sees him not as a honest man.
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Why the wrong is but a wrong i' th' world, and havingthe world for your labor, ’tis a wrong in your ownworld, and you might quickly make it right
Does this point to personal truths and the rejection of black and white morality? Is Emilia true to herself, not trying so hard to grasp humanity through the external rules of morality?
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Why, who would not make her husband acuckold to make him a monarch?
Emilia seems to be a little looser around pride and civility -- it seems she has her own convictions. I wonder what this implies, and how her interaction with Iago might show that? What is her significance? She is the WIFE of Iago, that may say something.
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Good, good, the justice of it pleases! Very good!
Even the way he wants to kill her comes down to pride, justice, and his tightly held "Venetian morality" that comes from Iago's advice, all because he cannot trust his own morality and create his own convictions
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I’ll tear her all to pieces
You can see he is ever switching between every single new piece of "evidence" he comes across, showing his little conviction and yet his desire for absolute truth
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By the world,I think my wife be honest and think she is not.I think that thou art just and think thou art not
Like Reza, he is easily swayed by outside whispers because he has not built his identity, his true convictions, besides the insecurity that his convictions are not real.
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Did you know that while Black people represent just 13.6% of the U.S. population, they account for 53% of wrongful convictions?
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