Is Desdemona a Victim or Vixen? <Tab/>Desdemona is portrayed in the play Othello by Shakespeare in many ways. Two of these are as a victim and as a vixen. Victim defined means somebody who is tricked or taken advantage of where as vixen means an offensive term that deliberately insults a woman regarded as vindictive and bad-tempered as defined by the Macquarie dictionary. In Othello Desdemona is portrayed mainly as …showed first 75 words of 712 total…

…showed last 75 words of 712 total…males in the society as a whole confined Desdemona, restraining her every move. Even down to the way the males viewed her - as an intimate object which can be used and abused as they see fit. Finally the way Desdemona is forced to comply with the males around her as she would be unable to survive with out their aid. Desdemona is a victim and not a vixen in the paly Othello by Shakespeare.