Jealousy

The Effects of Jealousy Jealousy is defined when one feels resentment against someone who has something they would also like to have, such as achievements, wealth, and prestige. Jealousy is a vital theme in William Shakespeare’s “Othello”, because it is the cause for destruction and death in the play. Throughout the play, jealousy is shown between multiple characters. Destruction and revenge are the only purposes of jealousy within the play and the main villain in Othello, Iago, sets up schemes

Jealousy plays a main theme throughout Shakespeare’s play, Othello. Many factors lead up to Othello’s downfall. For example, Iago’s revenge plan including Cassio, triggered jealousy. The entire time, Othello is oblivious of Iago’s revenge against him. This enables Othello to believe “honest Iago” is just a friend helping him. However, in reality, Iago is getting his revenge. Desdemona has no idea why Othello is so indignant towards her during the midst of Iago’s plan, but later finds out in the worst

The Oxford English Dictionary defines jealousy as “the state of mind arising from the suspicion, apprehension, or knowledge of rivalry: a. in love: Fear of being supplanted in the affection, or distrust of the fidelity, of a beloved person, esp. a wife, husband, or lover.” Everyone has somehow experienced jealousy and the fear of losing someone important provokes insecurities, depression, rage and even violence. This universal and deeply rooted human emotion is widely represented in literature.

Jealousy shaped the events in Othello. Without jealousy the plot of Othello would have been completely different. Othello would have never killed Desdemona and they still would have been together, if jealousy was not a factor in the play. It also made the play more interesting by adding drama to the play. But jealousy was the catalyst that ultimately ends Othello and Desdemona’s life. Jealousy is an extremely common emotion. Which every human suffers from in one point in their lives. But it did not

Jealousy, to William Shakespeare it was a ‘green-eyed monster’, to B. C. Forbes it was a ‘mental cancer’ and J. P. Kennedy even asserted that ‘more men die of jealousy than cancer’. Jealousy is a complicated emotion which is a feeding of resentment against someone because of that person’s success or advantages. It is the worst aspect of human nature that can cause betrayal of trust, obsession and even crimes of passion like murder. This emotion has plagued mankind beginning with Cain and Abel and

Jealousy is a life trait in all humans and even in all types of animals. People always connect jealousy with the feeling of envy, to want some object, characteristic, or person that others have. It is only but natural to have the sense of envy and jealousy. These emotions can be active in everyday life ranging from stories to real life. Jealousy, given its negative connotation, is always portrayed as an adverse outcome. Hedding this information, not always will being jealous cause poor outcomes.

There are things in life that can make one’s life better. There also things that can make one’s life worse. One of the biggest beasts of them all is jealousy. Jealousy is, a very complicated thing to handle. Often we get jealousy mixed with envy. It is an intense emotion because it can consume a person often causing a person to act irrationally. In Othello by William Shakespeare, Othello is a good man who is head over heels for a woman named Desdemona but turns into something other than himself when

Jealousy is a fundamental theme in Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello. Both the title character and his conniving ensign Iago prove to be very jealous, but one stands out as the embodiment of the “green-eyed monster”. Othello is more jealous than Iago because his actions are a straightforward response to his jealousy, he becomes jealous with less reason than Iago, and his jealousy causes him to go ballistic, while Iago stays cold and calculating throughout the play. Throughout the play, Iago provides

Jealousy is one of the main reasons for anger and destruction. The rivalry between siblings can cause extreme feelings of jealousy, which can create a catastrophe. The biblical story of Cain and Abel shows this when Cain’s jealousy brings him to slaughter his brother and his loss of control ends with deadly consequences. In his novel, East of Eden, John Steinbeck retells the story of Cain and Abel through the relationships between Charles and Adam, as well as through Cal and Aron. Charles’ obsessive

In the play Othello, written by William Shakespeare, jealousy is shown as the greatest tool to manipulate the human mind. “The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.” - Robert A. Heinlein. In the play, the feeling of jealousy is often a side effect of stories told to many of the characters, and it is obvious that most of these stories are