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    Othello's Jealousy

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    William Shakespeare’s play Othello is a play with a theme of love and jealousy. During Othello’s final speech to Desdemona it becomes clear that Othello’s motives for killing Desdemona is purely based on jealousy and love. After hearing Iago’s false tales of Desdemona’s “affair” Othello becomes enraged with Desdemona and refuses to acknowledge her side of the story. He loves her so much he can’t bear to see her cheat on him, this is clear after analyzing the speech in act V scene V lines 1- 25.

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    Jealousy --- the Main tool in the tragedy of Othello William Shakespeare is famous all over the world for his use of recurrent themes, especially those of love, death and deception. A minute study of the play shows that all these themes are the part and parcel of his tragedy ‘Othello’. Most prominent, however, is jealousy. The story of the drama ‘Othello’ revolves around the doom of Othello and the other major characters as a result of jealousy. In this play, jealousy is mainly portrayed through

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    The nature of dormant jealousy is that it is aroused by even the gentlest touch of a flower, how much more by poison that will burn, searing the skin with even the slightest touch. As expected, the small droplets of poison being viciously and consistently anointed by Iago, burnt deep into the afflicted predisposition, causing the jealousy to go haywire and take full control. Coupled by the poison and predisposition, Othello’s trust in Iago is what allowed the poison to be administered in the first

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    Stockton's Jealousy

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    her love. Her jealousy and barbarism continue to be seen when she’s very jealous of the Lady that’s picked out for him, the princess described as “that hot-blooded, semibarbaric [sic] princess, her soul at a white heat beneath the combined fires of despair and jealousy” at the thought of losing him (303). This is important because she would have chosen the door with the Tiger out of jealousy to prevent him from being married to someone else who isn’t

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    Shakespeare as a work of tragic theater. The play is named for the general, Othello, a Moor during an extremely racist time period, and also features his wife, Desdemona and his jealous ancient, Iago. By the end of the play, Iago brings Othello to mad jealousy and eventually murder over the supposed (and non-existent) “betrayal” of his wife. With consideration, however, an audience may understand that Othello is not at fault, and pities him despite his mistake. The audience can see that Othello is a good

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    stronger marriage. In a marriage there is always jealousy. People think that their spouse is cheating on them if they are in public with someone of the opposite gender. Although this is a common misconception in marriages it rarely happens. People see what happens in other marriages and

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    Jealousy "The Green ey'd Monster": Othello by Shakespeare Othello, a play written by William Shakespeare, displays Othello as a fool who got tricked into being jealousy. This envy was brought on by Iago as he uses his envy for Othello's rank and bring disaster to everyone's lives. "The Honest" Iago betrays his own friends to get the rank of general. Before anyone realizes that Iago might not be as "just" as once thought, he already had implanted the seed of jealousy deep into people's hearts. Jealousy

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    In his 2001 film entitled Lantana, director Ray Lawrence provides a dramatic look into the consequences of jealousy and infidelity in relationships. The film focuses primarily on two couples, Leon and Sonja, and John and Valerie, whose relationships are both seemingly in the midst of their own downward spirals. As the story unfolds and the issues affecting each of these relationships are uncovered, the film paints a vivid picture of the different ways that such themes can quickly bring ruin to

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    The Monster Jealousy Shakespeare’s use of the word monster in Othello the word “monster”may be a key to understanding the play. The etymology of ‘monster’ can be traced to mid 12th century France where connotations of the word included, “ to be skilled,” “genius,” and “mastermind”. By mid 13th century the connotation of the word in France changed to be a disfigured person.In contrast in classical Latin, the meaning of monster was very close to it 21st century meaning in English, i.e., grotesque

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    drama out of pure jealousy.” To be jealous of someone is never okay. For example, to be jealous of someone for the type of phone they have, maybe the pet they have, and even the amount of knowledge they have is not okay. You are who you are, and you can’t change that. Yes, some people may have advantages that you don’t have but, we have to be grateful for what we have and what we’ve got. In the story “All Summer in a Day,” and the piece of art titled “Two Fish,” the theme “jealousy” is used. Don’t

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