Thesis: Shakespeare utilizes both demeaning labels and Desdemona's fate to illustrate the rigidity of male-female dynamics, warning that when women compromise their role as subordinate, s**ual objects, they will be subjected under the raw physical power of men despite the transparent immorality of the situation.
An insurmountable external beauty,
A tongue unrestrained,
An ignorance of mind proved fatal,
A shifting possession of men,
A failed subject of them
Her husband, marked by unprecedented valor,
Unknowingly follows them
Commanding, “come away to bed”
Limiting her function to s**ual play,
Silencing her voice by uttering these scrupulous remarks each day
The “essential woman”
Trapped in the expectations of self,
Smothered under the clout of man,
k**ed when combating injustice
Silenced by man's hand,
But dictated by laws above
Unchanging; unaccepting; unreasonable
Eternal in existence
Some struggle under their presence,
Screaming to be “uns**[ed]”
Clawing for mere shreds of status
As they watch beneath the gla**,
Watch the man a**ume authority,
Watch him squander it,
Watch them reward his meager efforts,
Watch them laud his physicality while patronizing hers
Countless labels penetrate the skin
“Cunning who*e”;
“Impudent strumpet”;
An eternal storm of degrading labels,
Unraveling her mentality as the drops stick
Too many to wash off,
They fuse with her interior
His anger provoked by the slightest falsehood,
A “savage madness” cured only through physical expression,
His hand proves victorious,
Smothering her innocent pleas of misinterpreted indiscretion,
Satiating a rage only “appeased by blood”,
But a**uring the perseverance of her “white skin”
Her frail body lies “still as the grave”
Her pre-existing identity shattered by their rigid expectations
She failed to play her role,
Thereby succumbing to man's unforgiving hand,
Her last breath stifled as she lay across the bed,
A suitable resting place for a mere object of desire,
A place where s**uality is utilized as “an insult against her”
Above,
Sighs of relief are uttered
The dynamic remains untouched,
The scales still astutely unbalanced,
Men seek to perpetuate these visceral achievements,
Routinely annihilating woman's developing perception of self
Conceal your aspirations, my pretties
Or risk subjection by those above