Jealousy In Shakespeare's Othello

Improved Essays
Throughout the act of Othello in William Shakespeare I think Othello did not love Desdemona he was only grieving for her, and he also did want to see he with no one else. From my understanding in this play jealousy played a big role in Othello’s wisdom. When you truly loves a person you are blind about everything else, so even when Iago told Othello that Desdemona was cheating he would out kept denying it every time the situation comes up. In this research paper I will discuss who Othello did not love Desdemona because his jealousy for her was too much.
To begin with, being in love with someone means that every second of the day that’s the only person you think about and want them to be around you. When a person is truly in love with their
…show more content…
Or probably she knew she could change his mine and she also knew if she escape the situation would have probably got much worst. The relationship between Desdemona and Othello is a complicated one. Although they were both in love with each other, I think the love was deeper to Desdemona then Othello due to Othello’s jealousy.
Othello seemed to be missing the confidence and trust of marriage, while Desdemona was true to her love to the end. Throughout the beginning of the play, Othello 's love for Desdemona seems to be strong and true. But after Iago basically betrayed Othello, his love for Desdemona was easily put to the test. I do not believe true love could be put to the test that easily. Othello didn’t not fight hard enough he believed everything Iago told him then he expected to get the same exact answers from Desdemona.
Othello founded no satisfactory in Desdemona’s denying this questions. Towards the end of the play there was no trust, no communication, and no understanding. So to me in the play love is showing that both sides of a relationship have to be equal. One person can’t over love someone else that’s where jealousy is going to play a role. Jealousy is love and hate at the same time so you will be jealous of any thing your significant other do but u still love him or

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    Desdemona is a complex character, contrary to popular belief, Shakespeare demonstrates her complexity through her character growth, ambiguity of her love for Othello,and her search for power. Before Desdemona’s marriage to Othello, she is seen as the innocent, virginal, and naive girl that her father believes her to be. Brabantio referres to her as, “A maiden never bold; / Of spirit so still and quiet that her motion / Blush’d at herself” (I iii 112-114). Brabantio believes Desdemona would never be so bold as to…

    • 1961 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Jealousy In O And Othello

    • 737 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Othello never regretted marrying Desdemona until Iago started rumors about Desdemona cheating on him. Iago can continue making Othello jealous because Othello trusts Iago and will believe him. “But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they are jealous: ‘t is a monster, begot upon itself, born on itself” (3.4.59). This quote is saying how people do not have to a have a reason to be jealous, they just are. There may be no known cause of the jealous, it is from this monster that grows inside people and continues to grow until there are no longer jealous.…

    • 737 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This also relates to real life in society how if one person gets jealous over another it could destroy a person’s character and make them to be something they’re not. Even though Othello tries to victimize Desdemona in this play, Othello is also a victim of jealousy. As soon as Iago tells him about Desdemona being unloyal and unfaithful to him jealousy sets in. After Iago telling…

    • 743 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Also, Othello explains that Desdemona fell in love with him while listening to his life stories romantic tales of travel, adventure, and danger. Othello also recalls that Desdemona said, "she wish'd that heaven had made her such a man.” This suggest Desdemona wishes heaven "had made such a man" for her to marry, especially given the fact that she advocates that Othello's stories could "woo" her. The audience also see that the love between Othello and Desdemona may not prevail as without hesitation, Othello puts aside his new bride to dash off to the war, which could suggest that he values his position in the military above his…

    • 801 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In spite of Desdemona’s devotion and loving demeanor toward her husband, Othello’s faults shine through and ultimately…

    • 1407 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger” (195). Othello is overcome by jealousy when he hears that his wife, Desdemona, is having an affair. However, this is not true, it is just a rumor started by someone outside of their relationship. Othello is so mad that he does not go to Desdemona to find out the truth, but he instead kills her for being “unfaithful.” When he later learns the truth, he is overcome by grief and takes his own life.…

    • 1377 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the play Othello main inner struggle with his relationship with Desdemona, that he is an outsider in a mainly white population in Venice. Desdemona’s fatter thinks he should not have married Desdemona. That Desdemona should have married someone with the same status similar Roderigo. Othello felt insecure being black, which led him to believe Desdemona would never stay true to him. In his mind, he always thought he was in battle.…

    • 762 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Theme Of Trust In Othello

    • 1639 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Shakespeare’s introduction of the characters allows him to communicate Othello’s calm and composed state of mind as a result of his balanced trust between Desdemona and Iago. Through Othello’s rationale behind loving Desdemona, Shakespeare displays the resulting strong bond of trust between the two and its impact upon Othello’s mental state. Amidst the controversial announcement of Othello and Desdemona’s marriage, Othello declares that “[Desdemona loves] me for the dangers I [have] passed,/And I [love] her for that she [does] pity them” (1.3.166-167). Here, Othello asserts that he loves, and in extension trusts, Desdemona because of her ability to support and validate him. This history of loyalty and ‘pity’ refers to the basis of Othello’s…

    • 1639 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Many believe jealousy to be harmless, a common emotion that everyone feels. However, jealousy is a powerful emotion containing the ability to alter the mental state of man. The role of jealousy in William Shakespeare’s tragic play Othello exposes the deceptive nature of the human mind, and in addition characterizes the relationship between trust and jealousy. Cipriani, Gabriele, et al. "…

    • 1157 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    No matter how obedient she was to Othello or any other man, she would end up always in the wrong. Women in Shakespearean time were held to unrealistic expectations which in some cases, including Desdemona 's, would lead to death. Desdemona deserved to be treated better and to be around better men. Desdemona was a victim of her…

    • 870 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Othello Jealousy Analysis

    • 1072 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Jealousy is without a doubt, the most destructive emotion in the play because it caused all of the plot’s chaos. Even from the beginning of the play, jealousy has a strong grasp on the characters in the tragedy. The first half of the play focuses on the jealousy of Iago. In the beginning, Iago vents his frustration over Othello because of decision to make Cassio as his lieutenant instead of Iago.…

    • 1072 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Machiavelli’s Prince seeks to recruit and educate a ruler in the art of ruling. His ideal rulers are founders, men who created a fatherland and were not afraid to sacrifice lives and their self-interests for the common good. Machiavelli stresses that a ruler needs to appear virtuous while using vices when necessary to achieve positive results. Machiavelli teaches the ruler to divide his self. “It is essential, therefore, for a Prince […] to have learned how to be other than good, and to use or not use his goodness as necessity requires” (Machiavelli, 40).…

    • 1300 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Desdemona, Othello’s love interest, first began to fall in love with Othello after listening to his war stories and Othello fell in love with her because “she did pity them”(Act 1, Scene3). Desdemona is accused of having an affair with Cassio, Othello’s Lieutenant, by Iago for reasons not disclosed by Shakespeare. Throughout the play her goodness and loyalty to Othello is steadily revealed especially in the end. In the beginning of the play she openly admits to her great loyalty to Othello when she chooses him over her own father, “I do perceive here a divided duty……

    • 842 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout time, the devastation caused by jealousy in society has gone unchanged. The amount of manipulation and tragic deaths by the actions powered by jealousy continues to increase and self-confidence in people is decreasing. People feeling low self-esteem allows doubt in others more easily. Jealousy can have the same effect as cancer on the body clouding one’s thoughts and violently moving through the body. Jealousy continues to ruin relationships, turning people into criminals, and in a sense paralyzing a person’s mind it also relics a strong emotion that causes a person to feel a low self-esteem, greed, selfishness, envy, and a negative outlook on situations.…

    • 2450 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Othello becomes a tragedy of incomprehension where hate, manipulation and revenge derive from the arrogant and blinded nature of the characters and their interactions with one another. Within the Aristotelian tragedy of ‘Othello’, the attribute of incomprehension creates the ultimate downfall of Othello through Rodrigo’s initial and prevalent manipulation by Iago to further his plans, Iago’s inability to comprehend Othello’s genuine trust for him which fuels his blinded revenge and Othello’s incomprehension of Desdemona’s loyalty towards him which leads to his jealous rage and in turn, his death. Alongside Othello’s gradual buildup of jealousy throughout the play by Iago’s masterful plans, the downfall of Othello ultimately demonstrates the…

    • 1242 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays

Related Topics