Jealousy In Greek Myths

When Zeus and Leto fell in love, he got Leto pregnant with twins. When Leto got pregnant, Zeus was with Hera at the time. Hera found out about Leto being pregnant with Zeus’s kids and she got angry with Leto and she cursed her. Hera gave her the curse to where Leto could not give birth to any island connected to the ground or the sea floor. Zeus found out that Hera cursed Leto, so he made an island arise from the sea floor so that she can give birth to the twins. After Zeus made an island arise from the floor, Delos, Leto found a place on the island and started to give birth to the twins. Hera found out about Zeus making an island arise from the sea floor, she went out looking for Leto, since she could not find her she kidnapped the Goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia. Since the Goddess of childbirth was kidnapped, Leto had a long and painful childbirth. Artemis was the first to be born and then a few days later Apollo was born. Every single God and Goddess was there to witness the birth

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.

Especially after Io’s entrance and the recount of her story, Hera seems more like a jealous wife than the noble queen she is presented as in Hesiod’s work. Her attitude towards Io is blamed on Zeus, who has not only provoked Hera’s actions but is her husband and thus responsible for Hera, as it was customary in ancient Greece.

Hera, the Greek goddess of childbirth and marriage, was the wife and sister of Zeus. She was the Queen of Olympian Deities. People knew her as the most beautiful and powerful goddess, but she had a bad side to her.

The definition of arrogance is overbearing pride. I see arrogance almost everywhere I go: the store, church, school, and on the street. Arrogance could be disguised as self reliance, but you need to be able to know when you need help, and be able to accept it. Those who do not accept help and are too arrogant, which is a sin. Many of the Greek myths, some of my family members, and myself sometimes have arrogance.

The role of morality in the Odyssey sharply differs from our own notions of morality. Textual support for a morality in line with today’s common notions of morality is frail at best or otherwise fragmented and insufficient. Even the notion of justice, which stands as one of the fundamental pillars of western society today, is often inconsistent and contradictory, particularly among the gods. In the Odyssey, acts of kindness are not a product of some benevolent altruistic tendency, but rather, a consequence of selfish desires. Acts of kindness such as hospitality, Telemachus’ voyage, and the gods’ portrayed benevolence are actually exploitive and selfish in nature.

Jealousy out of all human emotions is the most common to cause detriment. When an individual becomes consumed by its nature it ultimately leads to their worst self. Jealousy is a major theme in Othello and it is what drives Othello to commit his heinous deed of killing his wife. Through Shakespeare’s exploration of how Othello becomes corrupted the underlying question of whether human nature when challenged reveals an inner demon. A monstrous, violent green eyed monster. The corruption of Othello is provoked by Iago, Iago is aware of his insecurities and therefore uses this knowledge to his advantage. As stated “Oh, Beware, My lord of jealousy!/ It is the green eyed monster which doth mocks/ that meat feeds on” this metaphor used by Iago is a warning to Othello of the dangers associated with Jealousy, that it has an appetite for its victims. It is ironic that Iago preaches his own diagnosis. Jealousy is what fuelled his anger and unloyal behaviours towards his colleague. Through the juxtaposition of Othello's gullible nature and Iago's noxious villainy, the picture of envy is genuinely exemplified as an all-expending "green-eyed monster". Othello is not seen as a

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.

Although Zeus had a dozen of love affairs he created a “union” wit Hera that resulted in four children. Arguments soon began to arise between Zeus and Hera and became a part of their daily lives. Zeus continued to have one affair after another with different goddesses. Hera could not punish Zeus for

“Let battle-stirring Athena appear and contest her skill with mine'; (Rosenberg and Baker 128). The gods were jealous of each other too and competed on things like their children. “Hera felt even more embarrassed when Hephaestus, the child she hoped would compete with Athena’s excellence, turned out to be lame'; (Rosenberg and Baker 52). The gods were often jealous when mortals exclude them in their offerings and would not hide their anger. Jealousy was a weakness the Greek gods possess and would usually lead to foolish mistakes.

Othello is a play about jealousy’s causes and effects. Each character in the play had different reasons to be jealous and each of them chose to deal with it a certain way. All three characters Iago, Othello, and Roderigo had such cases and in the end dealt with different conflicts and outcomes. It’s important to understand that their actions in dealing with their jealousies were a reflection of their characters, and persona.

But jealousy, and especially sexual jealousy, brings with it a sense of shame and humiliation. For this reason it is generally hidden; if we perceive it we ourselves are ashamed and turn our eyes away; and when it is not hidden it commonly stirs contempt as well as pity. Nor is this all. Such jealousy as Othello’s

Additionally, it is even more fascinating that not only do Greek Gods act like human; they also behave like humans: they could love, marry, produce children, and so on. However, there were problems, because although they were gods, they also were given weaknesses of humans, such as jealously, enviousness, spite, et cetera, which created immense problems by the fact that they were Gods with extreme power. Therefore, whenever they act upon hatred, much of their acts were very cruel and inhumane. Moreover, because there was such a large society of Gods, much of the Gods lives were shrouded in chaos and revenge. For instance, as described in the book Myth and Meaning, Hera was attributed towards the peacock for her ego-centric nature towards herself. She, like a peacock, tried to prove to Zeus, her husband, that she was the fairest woman in the land. Zeus, however, preferred to steal away and fantasize with other women. Then Hera, out of jealousy, who could not punish the most powerful God, instead inflicted it against Zeus’ lovers. All in all, Greek Gods and Goddesses look and act like humans would.

In the story of Othello, all of the conflict, violence, and harm that occured was a result of jealousy. Iago, one of the victims of jealousy, made a hypocritical statement to Othello where he called jealousy a green-eyed monster. This monster known as jealousy not only consumes the people that it hates, but also consumes the person itself. Jealousy is the culprit for any character that had died in the story. Jealousy fueled each scene to the next in Othello and the more that is added, the more damage it does as seen with its effects on Roderigo, Iago, and Othello.

The gods who inspired the love and hate relationships among families include Hermes, who used his magical use of language to lure the feelings of his brother Apollo away from jealousy to love. Hermes' reward was divination, and he became the god