Jealousy And Destruction In Othello

Jealousy and Destruction the Terrible Twin Forces Destroying Relationships In Shakespeare’s Othello, jealousy occurs and it leads to destruction. Lagos and Othello are at first very peaceful but chaos start erupting as Lagos becomes overwhelmed by jealousy of Othello’s power and success in having a relationship based on love. Lagos is the right hand man of Othello, who is an army general at the time of the play. (Shakespeare, 113) Lagos feels that his promotion keeps passing him by and he swears to revenge against Othello, who has so much power. Out of jealousy, Lagos plants seeds of doubt on Othello about his wife Desdemona having an affair with the newly promoted officer. This new revelation leads to the destruction of Othello’s mind, …show more content…
In record, there has been 200 murders classified under sane murders and among them 46 were out of jealousy. This proves that, even though most religions advocate that people stay away from jealousy and to practice being happy when others succeed, the aspect of jealousy still leads to wars and killings. This is similar to Othello’s case in Shakespeare where Lagos becomes jealous and envious of his passions. (Shakespeare, 120) This is linked to the Muslim verses Christianity fights in most places in the world. Jealousy and envy is the explanation for these happenings according to the article. (Mike, 3) The article quotes that the overwhelming feeling of jealousy over one another leads to people destroying each other and the world at large, though words, actions of killing and the need to eliminate some of the people from a place of residence. This is very similar to the part where Lagos is very upset about promotion of another officer over him and swears top revenge. He uses deception to blind Othello, who acts out of jealousy and false evidence of an affair existing. Though he later learns that it was all a lie, the destruction that he has done is too much to take