Handkerchief– The main item which lead to this disastrous situation, it is the symbol of love and betrayal that escalated the situation further ahead. Iago with help of his handkerchief destroyed a happy relationship using many people in order to take revenge from Othello. For his personal gain, he made Emilia (his wife) to steal the handkerchief of Desdemona’s in order to plant the handkerchief in Cassio’s room so it would look like Desdemona cheated on Othello. He used his wife to make his plan successful and trying to attack Desdemona’s character by making her accuse of cheating.
Animals – Othello was often given different racial names because he was black and was in a high rank but was looked as outsider because of his color. He was always a symbol of stereotype whether by calling him ‘the moor’ or any racial names. People of Elizabethan society always discriminated people according to their class and social status which shows how they always have discriminated weak people or sex.
Light and Darkness – Othello was always discriminated for being black and he even got more bullied because he married a beautiful white woman who was seen as a symbol of purity. Desdemona was white and pretty which was seen as pure and was in a high status but as soon as she married a black man she was criticized for her decision. Even her father tried to control her and raised a question against her marriage and even disrespected her husband by saying he witch crafted her in order to marry her. People didn’t care about her decision rather everyone tried to control her. This shows how inferior women felt to live in that society.
