A04 & A05 Jealousy Flashcards
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A04: Macbeth’s Jealousy
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Jealousy in Macbeth drives characters to destructive actions, Macbeths envy of Banquo’s progeny, paranoia toward anyone threatening his power, leading him to murder, and his ultimate demise, same in Othello.
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A05: “The essential traitor is within the gates.”
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Suggesting that Othello’s downfall is caused by his own inner weaknesses rather than just Iago’s manipulation.
Jealousy is already within Othello, Iago only wakens it.
Challenges idea of Othello being a victim, implying that he is responsible for his own destruction.
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A05: Psychoanalytical criticism
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Psychologically been conditioned to have a victim mindset so it was not hard to have that mindset as it is engrained into society in the Jacobean, Venetian society.
