Article 116 stipulates that once married a woman is obliged to obey her husband.
Yet it is necessary to think of Desdemona as more than a woman who obeys her husband because of society's rules.
But it was a wife's duty to obey her husband in all that was not sin.
Maybe, like many women of her time, she's used to obeying her husband without question.
Now this damned promise by Octavia to obey her husband!
Then she was required to obey her husband and, in the event of his death, her eldest son.
Gram had always obeyed her husband even when she knew he was wrong.
Within marriage a wife was generally expected to obey her husband.
She would obey her father's or her husband's every wish, willingly and immediately.
Find someone who thinks a woman should obey her husband.