The Role Of Jealousy In Othello

Out of revenge, Iago successfully planted the seeds of jealousy into Othello's mind when in the garden he insinuated that Cassio and Desdemona were having an affair. Iago implied that he would use Cassio to make Othello jealous because Othello chose Cassio over him to be a second command man because Cassio was more experience than he was. Desdemona and Cassio knew each other before she knew Othello because he worked for Othello before. Iago implied that he was going to make Othello look like a fool by having Desdemona cheat on him with Cassio. Iago never directly said Desdemona and Cassio are having an affair but he was going to make Othello think they were having affair by using the strawberry embroidered handkerchief that Othello gave to her. He manipulated Othello until he thought of revenge. Once it did Iago told Othello to “Beware of Jealousy.” Iago successful and planting his first seeds of jealousy into the mind of Othello. Out of revenge, Iago successfully planted the seeds of jealousy into Othello’s mind when Iago had his wife, Emilia, steal the symbolic strawberry embroidered handkerchief. Othello’s mother got it from a egyptian charmer. She used it to help control .
She instructed him to give it to the woman he desired he was going to marry. Othello’s first gift of love to Desdemona was the strawberry embroidered handkerchief. Desdemona valued it. She even talked to it. She talked to it because . It was a symbol of love. Desdemona ended up losing it. She lost it when . Emelia picked it up because she saw it hit the floor so she stayed and waited to pick it up. Emilia gave it to her husband Iago