Othello Jealousy Essay

Cinthia Arias “Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”(Francois de La Rochefoucauld).Othello was a general in charge of Venice, Italy. He was a soldier who came from Africa, with a reputation of being a military hero. Othello chose a young and less experienced soldier to be second in command, Michael Cassio. Jealous, Iago believed that he was more qualified for the second in command position and so he planned to get revenge on Othello. Iago was two-faced, he planned to ruin Othello while pretending to be his friend. Roderigo is someone who also hates Othello because he was in love with Othello’s wife, Desdemona. He then Unites with Iago to harm Othello so he can get Desdemona’s love. Jealousy is a bitter emotion or feeling towards someone who takes what is yours.In Othello, William Shakespeare created the most evil person in all of literature, Iago. Iago wanted revenge on Othello because he gave the second in command position to Cassio, which Iago believed was not qualified for the position. Out of revenge, Iago successfully planted the seeds of jealousy into Othello’s mind when in the garden he insinuated that Cassio and Desdemona were…

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. "Dangerous Passion: Othello Syndrome And Dementia." Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences 66.6 (2012): 467-473.…

In the play Othello, jealousy is a theme that impacts Othello enough to murder his own wife Desdemona. Othello did not show any signs of jealousy at first and and he was aware of Desdemona's friendship with Cassio. He wasn't jealous until Iago starts manipulating his ideas. He implants ideas into Othello's head which makes him think differently. Jealousy is present throughout the play of Othello and displays the dangerous effects on the characters. Shakespeare demonstrates how powerful jealousy…

Othello by William Shakespeare is a tragic play revolving around the effect that jealousy has over people . In Othello, Othello has married his true love Desdemona, but after listening to the lies of Iago, he begins to believe that Desdemona has been unfaithful. In a series of events, Othello becomes convinced Desdemona was not true to him and tragically murders her. Othello killed his wife Desdemona because he felt jealous and betrayed, he let his emotions get in the way of his…

Jealousy, whatever it may be driven by, can produce many different actions in a person depending on their desires. Othello craftly examines a few examples of these with highly contrasting characters driven by vastly different things. The different manifestations of jealousy in said characters can be analysed through the characters of Roderigo, Othello, and Iago. Rodrigo’s character serves as an example of true jealousy over love, rather as a facade to cover-up another motivation, as seen with…

dispute had been going on for a while with the prime suspect being Iago, Othello’s Ancient. Before I report the results of the tragedy, I’ll first explain the reason behind Iago’s motives. Iago believed that “Abroad it is thought that [Othello] ‘twixt [his] sheets” (1.3.368) instigating his hate for Othello, which he brutally referred to him as “an old black ram…the devil…lascivious moor” due to his race (1.1.89-125). Although I had heard this myth around the island of Cyrpus, until Iago was…

have the capacity to control it. That is our nature as humans. We all have emotions that cannot be avoided and it will always demand to be felt. We see emotions, such as jealousy,…

“Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy!/It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on.” (3.3.170-172). Such are the wise words of the famous villain, Iago, found in William Shakespeare’s Othello. A tragic play of jealousy and rivalry, many of the characters in Othello are doomed to a catastrophic ending—a misfortune beyond all ordinary worries. Though each character experiences unfavourable obstacles out of their control, the misfortune brought upon the characters in Othello is…

William Shakespeare’s “Othello, the Moor of Venice” (reprinted in Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed.) is one of the most well known tragedies across literature. In the famous play, Othello is the Moor that came into the Venetian city as somewhat of an outsider and acquired a high rank so quickly that it bothered many other men at the time. In addition to this, at the start of the play Othello marries Desdemona without her father’s…

evergreen trigger of emotion that slowly takes over one as they become skeptical their significant other is significant to someone else besides themselves, in other words, jealousy. People are known to feel jealous when they suspect that their treasured bond with someone or a desire is threatened by a third party that was definitely not invited. In the play, Othello by William Shakespeare, the theme of jealousy is consistent throughout the text and portrayed by many such as the protagonist,…