Jealousy Case Study

My first observation is that the subject fills up their water bottle during the class change. Another one of my observations is that my classmate faces forward during the fifty- two minutes sixth period lasts. The person isn’t late to class. Additionally, the student went to the bathroom at the end of class. This shows the subject is determined not to waste class time.

In the play, Othello, jealousy and envy are prominent themes from the beginning to the end. As the play starts to unwind, you can see jealousy is the major cause of all the drama in the play. Jealousy or envy is a feeling of discontented or resentful longing by someone else’s possessions , qualities or luck. Iago becomes engulfed by jealousy and it causes him to corrupt Othello. They are two men that cause similar crimes but we sympathize for Othello and hate Iago because they have different attitudes towards their crime.

There are many different emotions like sadness, happiness, and joyfulness just to name a few that people can experience. One of the most powerful and sometimes dangerous emotions is Jealousy. Jealousy is a powerful emotion that most people experience at some point in their life. However, not everyone is affected in the same way. Some people are filled with insecurity. While others are filled with fear. Most people experience anger. In William Shakespeare’s Othello the audience learns through the characterization of Othello and Iago, the symbolism of the handkerchief, and through Othello denying that he is jealous we learn that jealousy can make people behave irrationally in certain circumstances.

The novel “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles is a story of friendship and conflict. John Knowles uses Gene’s envy to demonstrate that jealousy ruins friendships. This is shown multiple times, including fake friendships, internal conflict becoming physical, and all conflict resulting in the loss of trust of one another.

“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that intimidation is suicide…” (Emerson 370). A Separate Peace, written by John Knowles, takes place at Devon, a preparatory school in New Hampshire, during the 1940’s. Gene Forrester is a student at Devon and drives much of the story’s plot through his intimidation of his best friend Finny. A Separate Peace not only shows how Gene’s envy and intimidation of Finny affected him and his friendship with Finny, but it also shows Gene’s failure in achieving true peace.

The novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, follows the life of a young Gene Forrester and his friend Phineas. The boys’ antics get them into numerous rigorous and life-threatening situations and furthermore let them learn about each other's true nature. A Separate Peace’s plot can easily be compared to the Shakespearian quote; “Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.”. This mere sentence can easily summarise the jealousy that Gene holds towards his friend. Gene’s jealousy is mostly for Phineas’s impeccable ability to get away with his risky stunts without punishment while still remaining completely humble. In the end, Gene’s jealousy of Phineas dilutes his view of him as a person and companion. Gene believes Phineas to be a conniving manipulator when in reality, he was genuinely a down to earth boy. Throughout the novel, copious relations to the quote are littered among the text and ultimately carry the story from start to finish.

Friendships are like those fragile glass ornaments that come out for Christmas. They’re beautiful, until someone does something to damage it. Gene and Finny’s friendship is the same. Its great, until Gene’s mind comes along to ruin it. His jealousy gets in the way of him being able to appreciate Finny’s friendliness towards him.

In the novel, A Separate Peace, one of the main characters named Finny had physically and emotionally refused reality. His perspective of the world changed when his innocence is destroyed by jealousy, which led to betrayal among an ill friendship, and denial.

Jealousy, it is one of the most complex human emotions. Everyone experiences jealousy, but each person reacts upon it differently. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Gene is envious toward his lifelong friend Finny. The article “Jealousy: Love’s Destroyer” by Hara Marano, jealousy is perceived as a survival instrument. The video “Ode to Envy” by Parul Sehgal, jealousy can be seen as natural. All three sources identify how each person acts differently in a situation that revolves around envy. In the novel A Separate Piece, by John Knowles, the article “Jealousy: Love’s Destroyer”, by Hara Estroff Marano, and the video “Ode to Envy”, by Parul Sehgal, each author shows that jealousy causes each individual to react differently.

Fallacies are a commonly used method one uses to persuade others. There are numerous fallacies that one can use for several reasons; such as to distract the audience with irrelevant details or even another argument (Appeal1). One form of a logical fallacy would be to appeal to pity. The appeal to pity method uses feelings of sympathy or pity to help one accept an argument, distracting them from the main facts, focusing on the sympathy matter. Appealing to pity is simply using one’s emotions against them.

Jealousy is a powerful drug. When someone is jealous, one can only imagine how far someone would go because of it. In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, there were several characters that went through different ways of processing their jealousy. Iago’s jealousy provokes his idea to get back at the people he felt was not deserving enough of the things they had or their happiness. His plans succeeds but by the end, no one wins. Iago’s jealousy forms at the beginning of the play which causes Othello’s jealousy towards the end and because of it, it results in people hurt mentally and physically.

In The Laboratory, browning has employed numerous techniques in order to show the narrators extreme anger and jealousy. This, in particular is highlighted in the first stanza through the use of plosive sounds on line 4: “poison to poison her prithee” which through the harsh phonology, shows the speakers harshness, and somewhat, cruelty towards “her”, who is only referred to cataphorically throughout. Furthermore, this is combined with the hell-like imagery when browning uses “devil’s-smithy” in order to describe the apothecary’s process of making the “lozenge”. Comparing The Laboratory with Porphyria’s Lover, we similarly see harsh phonology in the form of plosives on line 37, at which point the narrator is describing “Porphyria” as “Perfectly pure”. This is quite ironic, though, as normally we associate plosive sounds with negative imagery, as observed in The Laboratory in which Browning has selected words like “poison”.

I would like to take this moment now to raise the matter of his Majesty’s headship, it has come to our attention that his Royal Highness wishes to be acknowledged as the head of the church of England, along with the payment of the £100,000 stipend. I will open the floor to discussion, but please keep all comments brief.

When a person first thinks of murder, envy probably is not their second thought, but it should be their third. Statistically speaking, jealousy ranks number three in the most common motives for manslaughter. So although it may seem like a simple enough emotion, many feelings coincide. To most, it is a stressful and unwanted inner conflict that can cause or further aggravate thoughts of insecurity and inadequacy. Also, apparently, violence-inducing rage.

“Envy is a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another 's advantages, success, possessions, etc” (Dictionary. Com). It is hard to be satisfied as a human. People feel envy about other’s wealth, looking, and job. Pride is what causes envy, as human beings people do not like it when others are better. Some people say envy is a sickness, but some people say that is a motivation to be better. Although envy and jealousy are similar, but they are two different things according to studies.