Iago: “Nay, but be wise: yet we see nothing done;/She may be honest yet. Tell me but this:/Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief,/ Spotted with strawberries, in your wife’s hand?”
Othello: “I gave her such a one; ’twas my first gift.” (Act III, Scene iii, Lines 431-435)
I am not sure where this poster is from but it seems to be promoting a more modernized version of a play of Othello. This is most evident because of the use of the gun, when at the time of the play, there were no guns. All of the characters used swords as weapons, rather than guns. This promotion of a play stuck out to me mostly because the strawberries are meant to look like blood because the ooze is coming out of the gun. The blood’s significance I would imagine is because of all of the deaths that happen in the play of Othello. The significance of the strawberries are showing how important the handkerchief was to the play because the handkerchief had strawberries on it as mentioned in the quote above. Othello also mentions in the play that the handkerchief was his first gift to Desdemona, proving it has much more value than just a normal napkin would. I believe the strawberries are shown as bloody because the handkerchief was the main piece of evidence that caused so many deaths and injuries in the play.
