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- Treatment of Women
  - Isabella - Brothers wanted to have her marry a rich man
    - 'coax her by some degrees to some high noble and his olive trees.'
  - Othello - Bianca being objectified, Iago's & Emi's views, Des' mistreatment.
    - 'I do think it is their husbands fault if wives do fall ' - Emi A4S3
      - 'Strumpet' 'look to your house, your daughter, and your bags! Thieves, thieves!' Iago A1S1
  - EOSA - Madeline being r*ped and being forced to stay with Pophyro b/c of it
    - 'Poor Madeline wept'
  - DOAS - Linda taking on the typical maternal role, being a stronghold of the house. Unwavering dedication to W no matter what he does
    - '[taking off his shoes]' 'Maybe it was the steering wheel again'
  - LBDSM - the faery being presented as a 'dangerous seductress' and being blamed for the knights misery
    - 'she look at me as she did love' 'full beautiful -a faery's child'
  - Lamia - being trapped and dominated over by Lycius. Debateable - she liked it.
    - 'Labyrinth you here' 'she loved the tyranny'
- Suffering
  - Isabella - never ending suffering after Lorenzo died. The suffering of the working class under the brothers
    - 'she forgot the stars, the moon, the sun' 'red-lined accounts'
  - LBDSM - Knight suffering the manipulation he fell under, purgatory state of suffering.
    - 'alone and palely loitering'
  - DOAS - W inability to achieve the AD and the repercussions it brings to the family dynamic and his mental stability
    - 'I have such strange thoughts' '[he loses himself in reminiscences]'
  - EOAS - the beadsman's suffering in the cold, M's suffering
    - 'fair Madeline began to weep' 'Numb were the beadsman's fingers'
  - Lamia - Lycius' suffering brings him to the point of death
    - 'his arms were empty of delight'
  - Othello - his mental suffering over D's 'betrayal', he has a fit and is driven to kill her
    - [falls in a trance] A4S1 'give thy worst of thoughts the worst of words' A3S3
- Hostility of Nature
  - EOAS - the storm and the harsh cold the Beadsman faces
    - 'the lovers ran away in the storm' 'frozen grass/frosted breath'
  - LBDSM - nature reflecting the Knights emotions
    - 'sedge has withered from the lake/no birds sing'
  - Othello - the storm that kills the Turks allowing the audience to solely focus on the domestic conflict
- Tragic Flaws
  - Othello - O is credulous & insecure
  - DOAS - W is insistent on achieving the AD - obsessed with the idea
  - LBDSM - knight believes what he sees, too keen to love.
  - Isabella - obsessed with Lorenzo
  - Lamia - Lycius want to show off their love, Lamia deceives others
- Power
  - LBDSM - power shift between the knight and the woman.
    - 'La Belle Dame sans Merci the hath in thrall'
  - Othello - Iago's power over everyone allows he to easily manipulate the narrative to his desire
    - 'Honest Iago' 'pour pestilence into his ear' A2S3
  - Lamia - power over Lycius but then power shift. Manipulated Hermes and the nymph
    - 'thy sweet nymph' 'playing the woman's part'
  - DOAS - the power of the AD over the Loman's, consumes their lives
  - Isabella - brothers status gives them power to exploit the workers; Keats voice is heard
  - EOAS - Porphyro's power over Madeline 'my bride'
- Blindness
  - Othello - O's blindness to Iago's manipulation, Des' blindness to the true cause of Oth's down fall
    - 'give me ocular proof' A3S3 'your wife, my lord; your true and loyal wife' A4S2
  - Isabella - Lorenzo's blindness to his murder
    - 'their murdered man'
      - LBDSM - Knights blindness (b/c of love) to the woman's true intentions
        'language strange she said I love thee true' 'she lulled me to sleep'
  - DOAS - W's blindness to his failures and to his families love
  - EOSA - the maids blindness to P's intentions - Debateable hinted to her knowing
    - 'far apart form wicked men like thee'
  - Lamia - Lycius' blindness to Apollonius' intentions
    - 'don't all sparks fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy'
- Victims
  - LBDSM - Knight was manipulated. Woman didn't want the attention
  - Isabella - Lorenzo, the workers and Isabella
  - EOSA - Madeline, beadsman, Angela
  - Othello - Othello, mainly Desdemona
  - Lamia - nymph, Lamia & Lycius
- Inevitability
  - Othello - D+O's relationship broke the laws of nature
  - Isabella - the difference in status and her suffering
  - DOAS - W's mind was already degrading
  - Lamia - relationship was built on magic not reality
  - LBDSM - cyclical structure
  - EOSA - the weather was symbolic of the tragedy

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