Jealousy In William Shakespeare's Othello

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Songs of love and jealousy are spewed across today’s radio. Billboards and magazines highlighting the “perfect body” can be seen all throughout the streets. Billionaires flaunt their cash and splurge on Ferraris and Fendi. With the help of social media, it’s impossible to not be jealous of someone or something. Jealousy is a major theme in the play Othello. People scheme and twist others minds to get revenge for not getting what they want. We want what we can’t have and much like the play Othello. many would do anything to get what they want. Today’s society can still relate to the play Othello in that it revolves heavily around jealousy and need to possess what someone else has.
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Iago constantly drops subtle hints and clues that Desdemona is a slut and has been cheating on him. He successfully creates the image of his beloved Desdemona and dear friend Cassio together in Othello’s marriage bed. Ironically, Iago warns Othello “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss/Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er/Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!” (3.3.165-170). He uses this tactic to get Othello to finally admit he has doubts about his wife’s honesty. This scene is ironic in that Iago has not only extreme jealousy over Othello’s position but also he believes that Othello is sleeping with his wife Emilia. Eventually Iago successfully convinces Othello to strangle Desdemona in the marriage bed and drives Othello so mad he commits suicide. People use jealousy to control others actions and to warp the way the see the world. Many men and women use jealousy in the dating world to get the one they like to pay for attention to them. Altering the way people are perceived with jealousy is often very successful. It can change the way people view others and make them either repulsed or crave one’s

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