Othello Quote Response Two

"Othello: I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me;
Lend me thy handkerchief
Desdemona: Here, my lord. [She offers him a handkerchief]
Othello: That which I gave you
Desdemona: I have it not about me
Othello: Not?" (Shakespeare, 971)

This part of the play is rather important to the story because this is when we begin to see what the actions and words of one of the characters has done to another. The most important part about this dialouge is when Desdemona says she does not have the handkerchief that Othello has given her, because this begins to make his mind go crazy since he starts to believe what his friend has told him about Desdemona not being faithful. I think it is important to the whole play because this is the first step to realizing that Othello is being mislead and is eventually going to do something terrible because he feels as though Desdemona isn't being true to him. It is interesting to me that Othello is willing to believe someone who he thinks he knows but doesn't know and it ends up in him killing himself out of depression.