The handkerchiefs meaning changed throughout the play, initially Othello gives the handkerchief to Desdemona as a token of their love its ironic that it’s the handkerchief that eventually destroys their love. Othello constantly asked Iago for proof before he acted upon his suspicions this proof eventually comes in the form of the handkerchief a multiple metaphor for the whole play. This is perhaps an emphasises how unnatural the emotion of jealousy can be as Iago begins to use the emotion to his advantage.When an audience looks further into Othello’s jealousy, in between Othello’s lines we soon discover that perhaps he is the nobler man then Iago Iago’s language is rough and coarse throughout the play whereas Othello speaks in Iambic pentameter in several of his soliloquy’s, and Othello speaks with a soft tone throughout even after he’s killed Desdemona and realised how wrong he was about his beloved wife. He believes that he has been “cuckolded,” by his wife Emilia “For I fear Cassio with my nightcap too.” However we are never told if Iago’ suspicions are true yet jealousy seems to absorb him until he has destroyed everything in his way.Īs an audience we feel that Iago uses jealousy to rationalise his devilment like Othello does, however unlike Othello, Iago is cool and calculated when he decides to act upon his suspicions. Iago says that hatred and jealousy “gnaw at his inwards” like poison, however his ultimate aim is to poison Cassio and Othello and make them suffer as he is. This is linked to a feeling of envy which sets the play in motion.
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The audience knows that Iago is perhaps the one “eaten up,” with jealousy and Othello is none the wiser to this.However unlike Othello, Iago has a different forms of jealousy he holds the form of personal and professional jealousy.
However, its dramatic irony that Iago says this to Othello.
” This suggests exactly how strong Othello’s monumental jealousy really is, once Othello becomes convinced that his wife is unfaithful Iago continues to feed his jealousy which causes Othello to indeed behave like a monster.
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