Jealousy in art

In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago plays the villain who sets out to destroy the marriage between Othello and Desdemona. His appalling, horrific actions and malicious spirit often cause readers to wonder what Iago’s motivation is. While, the play does explain minor motivations for why Iago commits so much evil, these causes are not sufficient. Iago’s true motivation is pure evil because he is malicious, psychopathic, and devil-like; he will not stop committing sinful crimes and will never feel…

day one,” said by unknown person. Jealousy is an emotion that can be a big downfall of others and oneself for it has the power to make people act in an irrational way. Jealousy is most common in the world of love and envy, most times they all come in one. In this play Othello written by Shakespeare, the Commander Othello is betrayed by his ‘close friend’ named Iago out of anger due to not being picked for the position under Othello. “Research shows that jealousy is natural in a relationship….”…

Jealousy is defined as a negative emotional reaction to a real or imagined threat to a relationship. We’ve all experienced it at one point or another during our life. As a child, we may have had the “green-eyed monster” when we felt that someone was trying to “steal” our mom’s attention from us. As an adolescent, we may had experienced jealousy when we saw our crush talking to another girl. As an adult, we may had experience jealousy when we notice that our partner/husband has a pretty co-worker…

today as they were generations ago. Jealousy and appearance vs reality are two of the many themes central to both texts and are explored by both composers using a variety of techniques. Shakespeare used literary devices such as soliloquys, imagery and dramatic irony whereas Nelson used film techniques like mis-en-scene, camera angles and lighting to convey his message to his contemporary audience. The central theme in Shakespeare’s Othello is that of jealousy. The theme is explored through a…

becoming increasingly suspicious and doubtful, resulting in him asking Othello many questions about his thoughts and therefore showing how Iago holds control over the conversation. Othello also has a long syntax, in which he defends himself from any jealousy and also defending Desdemona by claiming that she chose him with her eyes wide open, so it is therefore not possible that she is involved with anyone else. After his speech, Iago then warns him: Iago: “Look to your wife; observe her well…

During Othello by William Shakespeare we see tons of jealousy between all the characters. Each character that expresses jealousy expresses it in a very overacted state or a very calm but irrational way. Major events of jealousy that occur during Othello are, when Othello passed up Iago for a promotion to give it to Cassio, and Othello gets jealous that his wife may be sneaking around with Cassio. In Othello, jealousy takes many forms, but it, is in all instances, destructive. Iago was talking…

As Douglas Adams so succinctly posited, the meaning of life is 42. However, as the characters in his novel soon realize, the answer to the meaning of life is useless without a properly - and, perhaps, a more specifically - formed question. If we narrow the rather uselessly broad question, we can ask about our individual purpose or place in our world, or what is morally or ethically right and wrong, or what we can do to satisfy our maker (or in the absence of a conscious greater being, ourselves)…

is difficult to obtain. Something that, once it is gained, should never be lost. It is sought after, it's unique color shining brightly. Unfortunately, it is also very soft, and humility is able to dent and misshape it with the weakest of blows. Jealousy can act like mercury,…

Here is this man just trying to blend into a new society and adjust to the various cultural norms but can never fit in because of his race. After killing his wife, the plot of jealousy and lies is uncovered and afterward it is discovered who all was involved and why. The guilt over killing his innocent wife leads Othello to kill himself. Othello was said to have had an epileptic fit as he was believing the lies told to him by Iago…

In Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, the title character is a 16th century Moorish general of the Venetian army who, because of the cultural and historical background of the play’s setting, the playwright, and the original intended audience, is portrayed as both well-respected for his stereotypical military prowess and disparaged for his race. Similarly, because of Othello ability to fulfill the desires of the Venetian people they loved and adored him. It was not until they gained perspective into…