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doctorate in yapping

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thinking about the willow scene in "othello", the only moment of solely female intimacy -- maybe even genuine intimacy full stop -- in the play. the way it's bordered on either side by male violence. the way it's the only time desdemona is allowed to argue back in the play and be listened to ("i wouldst thou had never laid eyes upon him"/"So would not I"). how desdemona and emilia are in near-constant disagreement, but it's somehow harmonious, it's exactly what desdemona doesn't have with othello: she is everything he wants, a perfect image, until she is not, whereas with emilia, they both challenge what the other is, what they think, and that's why, even when desdemona is dead, emilia will defend her with her life, because she knows exactly what desdemona was, more than even othello.

#shakespeare #couldn’t have said it better