Cosi Analytical Paragraph - Feedback please

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In Act one scene three, Cherry says that one of the lines in the opera Cosi Fan Tutte mentions the Phoenix of Arabia: ‘Woman’s constancy is like the Phoenix of Arabia. Everyone swears it exists but no one has seen it’. The Phoenix of Arabia was a fabulous golden-red feathered bird whose body emitted rays of pure sunlight. The creature lived for at least five hundred years and roamed the lands of Arabia feeding upon oils of balsam and frankincense. At its time of death a new-born Phoenix emerged fully-grown from its body and straight away encased its parent in an egg of myrrh and conveyed it to the great Egyptian temple of Sun in Heliopolis. The Phoenix was a popular creature in Greek and Roman literature, and later occurs in medieval stories.
Why does Despina say this in Cosi Fan Tutte. What is the opera suggesting about a woman’s ability to be faithful? How does Cosi challenge this notion?
The opera illuminates the issue of fidelity to be an ideal that is never achieved. The opera, ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’, translates to “women are like that” and suggests that men should accept the disloyalty of their female partners. Nowra employs the character of Despina to allude to the inability of women to be faithful as their “constancy” is as illusory as the Phoenix of Arabia, a mythical golden-red feathered bird. “Everyone swears it exists” however, their fidelity is not evident as Fiordiligi and Dorabella fall for each other’s lovers after Guglielmo and Ferrando “test the girl’s fidelity”. The men “disguise themselves as Albanians” to “woo the girls” and ultimately deceive them. Nowra utilises the opera to portray that “women are never true” and prove to be dishonourable to their partners. It articulates the message that men ‘’want women to deceive them because it will prove their worst thoughts about women’’ and allow men to feel righteous. Conversely, ‘Cosi’ challenges the preconceptions of love by proving men to be unfaithful as well. Lewis’s actions are ambiguous as he develops an intimate relationship with Julie and kisses her, whilst being Lucy’s boyfriend. It is evident that, like women, men are also insincere and inconsistent in their relationships. Men’s infidelity is condoned, while female infidelity is condemned due to the “double standards” that exist between men and women. Hence, it can be concluded that both men and women are dishonest as their commitment parallels to the Phoenix of Arabia.