I need help on Othello quotes!?

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So i have a quote that I have to present. I got "I hate the Moor" by Iago. I need to present how it reaveals a conflict in the play.

Another quote is when Emilia finds the handkerchief and says, "I am glad I have found this napkin...My wayward husband hath a hundred times woo'd me to steal it; but she so loves the token...I nothing but to please his fantasy." I need to say why this quote foreshadows later events.

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Answer 1

Conflict: It is Iago's hatred that leads to Othello's jealousy, murdering Desdemona and killing himself.

Try to look at them in context:

1. "I hate the Moor":

IAGO
On the surface, Iago's motive for wanting to destroy Othello could be one of several. The most obvious is that he has just been passed over for a promotion which has gone to Cassio. He confesses to Roderigo that this is the reason for his hatred; the reason for his desire to ruin Othello:
One Michael Cassio, a Florentine
(A fellow almost clamn'd In a fair wife),
That never set a squadron in the field/
But he, sir, had the election ... (l,i,20)

Another motive, and possibly a stronger motive than the first, Is Iago's jealousy of the Moor. Iago suspects that his wife, Emilia, has committed adultery with Othello:
... I hate the Moor;
And it is thought abroad that Itwixt my sheets
'Has done my office. I know not if it be true;
Yet I, for mere suspicion in that kind,
Will do as if for surety. (I,111,279)

Iago is also jealous of Othello's ability to woo the young, alluring Desdemona. It is possible that Iago has his own secret passion for the Moor's new bride, and he is enraged at the idea of the "old black ram" (I,1,88) attaining what Iago himself desires:
It cannot be that Desdemona should long
continue her love to the Moor ... She must change for youth.
When she is sated with his body, she will find the error of her choice
... If sanctimony and a frail vow
betwixt an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian
be not too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell,
thou shalt enjoy her.(I,iii,340)


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2. Emilia:
- As Emilia says, her husband Iago pestered her a lot stealing that piece of cloth and once she stole it and gave Iago, the stage is set for horror, espionage, murder. Hence that comment and the actual deed foreshadow crucial later events.
Just at this moment Desdemona appears, telling Othello that his dinner guests are waiting for him. Othello responds that he cannot go because of a severe headache. When Desdemona applies her handkerchief to the ache, the handkerchief Othello gave her as a wedding present and a token of the couple's eternal fidelity, the "napkin is too little (3.3.287)." In other words, the handkerchief, carefully sewed by the sybil and possessed of such talismanic power that it would subdue the lover to the beloved, couldn't cover the hurt. The handkerchief's inability to heal the head symbolizes the inability of any token, divine or human, to heal the rift that has now developed between Desdemona and Othello. His mind has been set on a course and even though he has not fully resolved on her destruction, the signs of relational end are there. It is as if a person had developed a deadly cancer but had not died of it. Its poison still was working its way into the system.

And so the handkerchief falls to the ground, is taken up by Emilia, and given to Iago, who will figuratively dangle it before Othello while saying that he has seen Cassio wipe his face with it (3.3.439). But before we leave the handkerchief we should note what Emilia says of it. She is Desdemona's attendant and has seen her with the handkerchief. In a soliloquy before Iago enters she says,

"I am glad I have found this napkin;/ This was her first remembrance from the Moor./ My wayward husband hath a hundred times,/ Woo'd me to steal it; but she so loves the token/ (For he conjur'd her she should ever keep it)/ That she reserves it evermore about her/ To kiss and talk to (3.3.290-296)."

A more touching picture of Desdemona's tender care for this special token cannot be imagined. She loved it so much that she would kiss and talk to it. What would she whisper to the token? No doubt that she would be faithful to its power and promise forever; that she loved the man who gave it to her; that she cherished both gift and giver. The fact that she lost it inadvertently and was unable to produce it when Othello demanded her to do so in 3.4 is one of the poignant moments of the play. The audience almost wants to cry out, as if to help Othello, "Iago has it!" But no further interpretation is needed because the central interpretive moment of the play has already taken place when Othello has said, "I am abus'd, and my relief/ Must be to loathe her (3.3.267-268)."

Conclusion
Iago knows that he has now trapped Othello. He will "in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,/ and let him find it (3.3.321-322)." Though the handkerchief is a mere "trifle," a thing "light as air," it will be "to the jealous confirmations strong/ As proofs of holy writ (3.3.323-324)." Indeed, as one thinks about it, the case is even easier with the handkerchief, for the reverend doctors must cite the text of scripture to win the point they are making while Iago must only tell Othello that the handkerchief is not in his wife's possession and the case is made.

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