Desdemona, the bride of Othello, and Emilia, the wife of the villain Iago, are the two principal female characters in Shakespeare’s Othello. Although they are both very loyal to their husbands, a sharp contrast between these women is realized with regard to Desdemona’s innocence and idealism and Emilia’s experience and realism. Desdemona and Emilia are loyal characters who want to please their husbands. Desdemona’s loyalty to Othello reaches to her superceding …showed first 75 words of 1864 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1864 total…true friends until the end. Desdemona and Emilia both share a very strong sense of loyalty towards their husbands, but differ in their perception of reality. Their ideas and feelings are very distinct from one another’s and their loyalty to their husbands is almost identical, nevertheless, together these two form a bond never broken or challenged, not even in death. They truly demonstrate how love blooms between even the most contrasting or complementary personalities.