 Studying Othello? Here's how you can analyse that 14-3. The opening stage directions show us that Othello, Lodovico, Desdemona and Emilia are all having supper that night. Lodovico, Desdemona's cousin, bids everyone goodnight and Othello offers to accompany him as he's leaving. Yet before he leaves, Othello speaks using this imperative sentence commanding Desdemona to wait for him in bed. It's clear that Desdemona is still committed to him as she obediently agrees to do exactly as he asks and wait for him in bed. Once Othello and Lodovico leave, Desdemona turns to Emilia. She speaks using these verbs to tell her that Othello has asked her to be alone without Emilia in her bedroom and Emilia is really shocked and she responds using this exclamatory sentence. Emilia further expresses her disgust at Othello's controlling behaviour and the sudden change in his behaviour using this exclamatory sentence. Yet Desdemona seems to regret nothing and she speaks in this imperative sentence asking Emilia if she dies that she is covered and wrapped in the same bedsheets that were used for her bed that night. We can see that Desdemona is having a really strong premonition of her impending death. Desdemona then remembers her mother's maid and she recalls to Emilia how her mother's maid had a lover who became crazy and abandoned her and this maid ended up singing a willow song. We can see that Desdemona has a terrible sense of foreboding because she confesses to Emilia that this willow song is still in her mind, she's thinking of this song. As Emilia is helping Desdemona prepare for the night, we can see in the stage directions that Desdemona starts singing the same willow song that she'd mentioned. As she's singing, Desdemona hears a knock however Emilia just tells her that it's the wind. Shakespeare uses pathetic fallacy here to create a terrible sense of foreboding as we as the audience realise that this is now accelerating to the tragic ending of this play. Desdemona seems really mournful as she reflects on the behaviour of men who she sees as unpredictable. Desdemona then innocently asks Emilia if there are women who actually mistreat their husbands if there exists any type of woman like this. Emilia seems more cynical as she responds to Desdemona that there are such women who'd mistreat their husband and she speaks using this hyperbole to say that if she was given the right price such as the world to abuse her husband Iago, she probably would engage in this vice of mistreating him. Desdemona seems really innocent, she tells Emilia that it's not possible for her to betray Iago or to mistreat him and she speaks using literation here to show that she's always going to be quite faithful and forgiving towards her husband Othello. Yet Emilia seems quite reflective as she considers why women would be pushed to mistreat their husbands. She seems somewhat of a feminist when she suggests that sometimes it's actually a husband's fault if their wives stop treating them kindly. Emilia further asserts that wives are actually quite intelligent and their husbands underestimate their ability to think for themselves, their wives are not stupid. She ends by reminding Desdemona that women should have the ability to also do what they want just like their husbands.