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Jealousy - Coggle Diagram
Jealousy
Othello
The strength of Othello's jealousy comes in part from the strength of his love. As he is poisoned and believes Desdemona is unfaithful, this love turns to jealousy
His sexual jealousy is fuelled by his insecurity. His insecurities are twisted into reasons that Desdemona would be unfaithful.
Act 3, Scene 3 he says his race and age as reasons Desdemona would cheat
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Debatable whether Othello becomes jealous too easily. Iago hardly has to do anything - it only takes seeing Cassio with the handkerchief to convince him.
Iago
jealosy is the prive drive behind the majority of Iago's action in the play with his jealousy predominantly revolving around Cassio's career and Othello's hapiness.
Iago believes he deserved to be promoted over Cassio; "I know my price, I am worth no worse a place". He asserts that Cassio is more suited to being a "great arithmetician" whereas he has extensive military experience and has been overlooked by Othello.
Whilst his initial motives are understandable, the extent to which Iago seeks to destroy Cassio's career and his reputation despite Cassio himself doing little to hurt Iago paints Iago as an irrational character whose jealousy overcomes his logic. This has led many critics to argue that jealousy is a mere excuse to create disorder
Bianca
Incomplete mirror of Othello? She is Cassio's jealous lover. Handkerchief makes her believe that he may be cheating on her, however, due to her position in society and the fact that she's a woman, she is unable to take it as far as Othello does
She acts as a foil to Othello - an alternative end to a story of jealousy. She gives Cassio a chance to explain or redeem himself. Hints at the path Othello could have chosen which makes his downfall more tragic
Emilia :
Emilia describes jealousy as "the green eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on". The connection between green and envy was first made by the Greek poet Sappho when she used it to describe a forgotten lover. Shakespeare made the link more explicit. The word mock remind the audience of Iago's please in other character's misfortunes which makes him a personifacation of the monster.The term feeds suggests jealousy as a consuming as is evident in Iago's descent into "motiveless malice".
Desdemona
She is unable to recognise Othello's jealousy. Her own flaw as naivety? Or the flaw of the society that she was born into? Women were not taught about men or life etc so is it her fault if she doesn't recognise his jealousy or the flaw of society
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