Jealousy

displays the selfish tendencies of human beings. Both authors use the theme of appearance vs. reality to show why humans turn to falsity by connecting the theme to the traits of characters who display the roots of falseness: jealousy, excessive selfishness and perception. Jealousy allows people to blind themselves from their harsh actions. For example, Ricci writes of Giuseppina trying to…

Odysseus is a leader with many great qualities. Many of which are intelligence, braveness, honesty, and being hopeful. Odysseus also has detrimental qualities that most leaders may have. Those of which are not good listeners ,lack empathy ,and jealousy. One of the biggest qualities a leader should should have is intelligence. Being intelligent means being in the state of intelligence in many ways. In order to lead, you need to have greater skills than the team. It takes skills to overcome the…

be jealous of something; Jealousy is not a good thing, as you should be happy that something good happened to someone else, otherwise that is just selfish, greedy and egotistical. This short story ‘All Summer in a day’ is a very good example of jealousy and selfishness, as a young girl, who is different, makes her classmates jealous involuntarily, and that leads to them bullying her, and how the others regret their choices. This story's theme is mainly about how jealousy and bitterness can…

and poses a higher authoritative position than most common man, yet has a tragic flaw, which is a major contribution to the hero’s downfall, known as hamartia. In William Shakespeare’s Othello, Othello is a tragic hero, which flaw was jealousy. The seed of jealousy and self-doubt was planted in Othello’s heart causing flared suspension and rushed into assumptions and actions that could have been avoided by calm common sense. Othello is a nobleman and a general in Cyprus. His skills…

personality disorder, or even be frustrated by the love that Othello has for Desdemona. Throughout the story, none of those reasons are completely clear, but they all could be possible. The reason that stands out the most out of all the possibilities is jealousy. Iago is jealous of Othello’s love, happiness, and respect that he gets from his peers, which motivates him to destroy Othello. The military stances that resemble Othello and Iago differ in many ways. “I follow him to serve my turn…

Brinker Hadley a natural born leader, Phineas his sporty best friend, and Quackenbush a dislikeable crew team captain. Like Gene these boys are also affected by similar issues which they must deal with. Gene faces many wars like his sexuality, jealousy, guilt, and his friends which he must overcome to find his separate peace. Gene goes to war with his sexulaity because he is unsure of his orientation. Gene goes to the beach with Phineas when Phineas shares his feelings for him. Gene layed on…

insight into and understanding of the other as the unchanging nature of the human condition allows themes and ideas to transcend contextual barriers. This is undoubtedly true of Shakespeare’s Othello, as it explores the universal themes of racism, jealousy and the role of women, which are also applicable to modern times, as is displayed in Geoffrey Sax’s…

Tom and Gatsby showcase the underlying theme of love and jealousy, as they are envious of each other because of where both their relationships stand with Daisy. Moreover, during the novel when Gatsby finally begins to interact with Daisy again, “he wants nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and…

Othello’s downfall is brought about by his tragic flaw of jealousy. Othello himself claims that “[It is] not to make [him] jealous, / To say that [his] wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well”, explaining that he would never be jealous towards his wife (3.3. 183-185). However, his actions contradict his eloquent speech, and his tragic flaw aggressively drags him to his downfall. His jealousy leads him to unhealthily obsess over his suspicions,…

adolescents know the impact that social media plays on relationships. They were found to have realized that social media does elicit jealousy and forms of controlling behavior. Not only did they develop these bias opinions of others from the content on their page, but they found that when they commented or liked someone’s post elicited negative thoughts and jealousy. “respondents indicated that they became jealous when their romantic partner liked or commented on pictures and status updates of…