Handkerchief
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- Created on: 18-05-22 10:53
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- The Handkerchief
- Quotes
- "Your napkin is too little let it alone" Act 3 Scene 3 Othello
- Othello rejects Desdemona's love, symbolically she is the handkerchief that he is tossing aside
- "They are all but stomachs and we are all but food" Act 3 Scene 4 Emilia
- The handkerchief has strawberries on and each man that holds it is to Othello effectively having sex with Desdemona
- "To lose't or give't away were such perdition as nothing else could match" Act 3 Scene 4 Othello
- For Othello, the Handkerchief had no value until Desdemona left it, and gave her no such warning before giving it to her.
- "Your napkin is too little let it alone" Act 3 Scene 3 Othello
- AO3
- Patriarchal renaissance times meaning men had institutional power over women
- The play exists in the transitional period between the Elizabethan and Jacobean age, perhaps explaining Emilia's proto-feminist ideals.
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- Cymbeline by Shakespeare
- Posthumous gives Imogen a bracelet, a "manacle of love". Establishes love token as a way of men possessing women, as well as attributing their worth to.
- Romeo and Juliet
- The theme of a rebellious marriage against social customs and a secret wedding
- Cymbeline by Shakespeare
- AO5
- Robert Heilman: Speaking on Othello "He rejects the magical powers of love" when dismissing the Handkerchief
- Katherine Stockholder: Speaking on Desdemona "She is too concerned about the real object of her love - Othello" to notice the games being played around her
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