Emilia And Desdemona In Othell

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and Emilia is shown to be quite close, as the following quote from the play shows, Desdemona is willing to share a part of her past with Emilia; a song that one of her mothers maids (Barbary) sang to her mother, and then her mother sang to her,

“The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,
Sing all on a green willow.
Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knees,
sing willow, willow, willow”

It is not common for a person to share songs from their childhood/past with people whom they are not close with, so therefore Desdemona and Emilia must be quite close (albeit that there relationship is probably based purely on Emilia’s work.)

Throughout the play, the audience’s opinion of Emilia (and her relationship with Desdemona) differs. When we see Emilia’ s involvement in the stealing of the handkerchief, the audience looks down at Emilia as apparently she has no scruples about betraying her mistress about small matters.




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