"Believe me, I had rather lost my purse / Full of crusadoes. And but my noble Moor / Is true of mind and made of no such baseness / As jealous creatures are, it were enough / To put him to ill thinking." "Is he not jealous?" "Who, he? I think the sun where the was born / Drew all such humors from him" (3.4. 25-32)
Desdemona and Emilia are conversing about the handkerchief Desdemona lost. Here, Desdemona explains that she values the handkerchief above all other posessions and that the handkerchief is a symbol of Othello's love of her. She then says that Othello will not think ill of her misplacing it. Emilia then asks her if Othello is jealous, and Desdemona replies that he was born without that emotion. However, as the reader will see later in the scene, she has no idea what she is talking about: The air is palpable with his jealousy. Again, this is another scene that displays both dramatic irony concerning Othello, and displays just how strong of a hold Iago has over Othello's emotions. Now, why is it that Emilia takes the handkerchief, knows nothing of Iago's plan, and hides her actions from Desdemona?
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