Examples Of Loyalty In Othello

Loyalty and Faithfulness in the Handkerchief Loyalty and faithfulness are necessary in a marriage. If a person is not faithful to their spouses, in the relationship, then there is a very high percent that the marriage will work. According to the Dr. Becky Whetstone, the percentage that a marriage will work after a spouse has been unfaithful to the other is 75%, because they feel like life would be more complicated if they were to get a divorce (Dr. Becky Whetstone, “Marriage Crisis, Separation, Infidelity.”) In this remarkable play Othello, loyalty and faithfulness is the major storyline throughout this play. Othello starts off giving Desdemona a handkerchief as a gift that was part of Othello’s family heirloom. This handkerchief that Othello gave Desdemona was to symbolize her loyalty and faithfulness to the

In this play, the handkerchief that was given to Desdemona when the two got married was the very first gift that she received from Othello. When Othello gave the gift of the handkerchief to Desdemona it meant the world to her and she even went against her father’s wishes because she loved Othello and her dad thought he was wrong for his daughter. Desdemona lets her father know that she is bound to her father for the life that she has been given along with her education. Desdemona’s father gets upset when she tells him that her marriage to Othello fulfills her like her mother was fulfilled by her father (Bartels, “Strategies of Submission: Desdemona, the Duchess, and the Assertion of Desire”). She always kept this gift on her all the time because she felt like the gift symbolized how much Othello thought and loved her. Desdemona thought this because when Othello gave her the gift of the handkerchief, he told her that his mother used the handkerchief as a promise of her love and loyalty to Othello’s father. Othello went on to tell Desdemona that when his mother had the handkerchief and she would lose it or would give it out as a