In Othello, by Shakespeare, Emilia and Desdemona are the best of friends and have similar interest, however, they live very different lives. Emilia has a careless husband, whereas Desdemona has a loving husband. Readers question which character is sympathized and Emilia is sympathized more than Desdemona because of what she has to endure from the beginning to the end. Throughout Othello, Emilia is cheated on and mistreated by her husband, Iago. He explains how she is talkative, aggressive, and he believes she is sleeping with Othello. Iago states, “But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor: And it is thought abroad, that ‘twixt my sheets he has done my office” (Shakespeare, Act 1). With little to no evidence of this of the affair, Iago
