Jealousy In Terri Guillemets And Othello By William Shakespeare

What do you think of when you hear the word jealousy? Most people when they hear the word jealousy they think of something destructive. Both Terri Guillemets and Shakespeare view jealousy as a terrible thing that tears people apart. Current events like high school and Hollywood actors show hove bad jealousy is for society today. Othello, by William Shakespeare, shows this theme perfectly because the character Othello is so driven by jealousy that he ends killing his wife.
Both Guillemets and Shakespeare view jealousy in a very similar manner. Guillemets views jealousy as a terrible thing that destroys people. Guillemets writes, “Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.” He is saying that jealousy destroys you by making you doubt yourself. It destroys you by making you feel like you …show more content…
In Othello, the main character is so consumed with rage and jealousy that he is unable to see the whole picture, which leads him to do something he would never have done otherwise. Othello, the main character, ends becoming so consumed with rage and jealousy about thinking that his wife is seeing someone that he kills her without getting the whole story. His wife was never actually seeing but Othello was so consumed he never realized it until it was too late. Once he found out that he was wrong he ended up killing himself out of grief because he had done something so terrible. Another character is Othello that shows jealousy is Iago. Iago becomes upset when Othello does not get the job he wanted. He becomes so jealous and pent up on getting revenge on Cassio, the man who got the job he wanted, that he loses sight of what harm he is actually causing. Iago is the one who actually put the ideas in Othello’s head about his wife’s cheating. Iago becomes so full of jealousy and rage that he does not think what these actions could cause in the future, like the fact that people could get