Jealousy Essay

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Jealousy is an emotion and it basically refers to the negative thoughts of fear over a loss of something that the person values such as relationship or love. Jealousy can break your friendships and marriages due to several problems and it can cause a lot of pain. In Jealousy you get out of control and do whatever your mind says to do even it’s right or not. It can last as long as you want to be. Jealousy in Othello results in the tragic ending like in the beginning of the play, Iago was jealoused of Cassio because he wanted to get Cassio’s position as a lieutenant, Rogerigo was jealoused of Othello because Desdemona loves Othello and not him and Othello was jealoused of Cassio because he thought that Cassio loves Desdemona more than him. Roderigo was jealoused of Othello because Desdemona loves Othello and not him. He was willing to do anything to win her love. It is the jealousy which moves him to do many evil things in the play. He gave a large amount of money to Iago to get Desdemona but he failed. Like in the beginning of the play Roderigo says to Barbantio “....But I beseech you/ If’t be your pleasure and most wise consent/ At this odd-even and dull watch o’ the night/ Transported, with no worse nor better guard/ but with a kneve of common hire, a gondolier/ To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor/ – If this be known to you, and your allowance/ We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs” (1:i:119-126). Basically what he is telling Barbantio is that this morning your daughter left your house to go into the rough embrace of a lustful Moor. If all of this happened with your approval then we are wrong but if you didn’t know about it then you were wrong to get mad at us. Then, again he says to Iago that “What a full fortune does the Thick lips owe/ if he can carry’t thus!” (1:i:68-69). Basically, he is saying that thick lips are lucky if Othello can control it
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