Jealousy Flashcards
Act 2, Scene 1
‘At least into a jealousy so strong that judgement cannot cure’
-suggests that jealousy is an all consuming illness that corrupts a person → makes the audience fear the outcome of Iago becoming overrun with jealousy
Act 2, Scene 3
‘Didst thou not see her paddle with the palm of his hand? Didst thou not mark that?’
RHETORICAL QUESTIONS
-foregrounding Iago’s ROLE AS A VILLAIN and his manipulation - Iago is taking the situation and reinterprets it for Roderigo to corner him into agreeing with him and alters what he has seen to manipulate those around him - MACHIAVELLIAN
Act 3, Scene 3
‘did I today see Cassio wipe his beard with it’
-Iago invests all his power into the handkerchief, making it a CATALYST as a PROP for the TRAGIC DOWNFALL
-represents Desdemona discarding her love for Othello
Act 3, Scene 3
‘thinks that thou I’d make a life of jealousy’
-RHETORICAL QUESTION + DRAMATIC IRONY as jealousy will be the very thing to bring about his downfall
Act 3, Scene 3
‘tis not to make me jealous to say my wife is fair, feed well, loves company….’
-Othello’s acknowledging that the great attributives of wife his wife shouldn’t make him jealous, but tragically this jealousy will overcome him
Act 3, Scene 3
‘Beware of jealousy my lord, it is a green eyed monster’
-DRAMATIC IRONY of Iago personifying jealousy as a destructive force that mocks and consumes its victims, highlighting its corruptive and dangerous nature yet he is the one planting seeds of jealousy into Othello’s mind
Act 3, Scene 3
‘it is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat to it feeds on’
-PERSONIFICATION AND METAPHOR of jealousy as a powerful and dangerous force
-jealousy ridicules Othello and leeches off Othello’s worries, overcoming and devouring him
-possible ALLUSION to the deadly sin of jealousy, reminding us that Iago is actually encouraging him to envious
Act 3, Scene 3
‘Is this man not jealous?’
-Othello’s jealousy surfacing as a TRAGIC FLAW
Act 3, Scene 4
BIANCA: ‘some token of a newer friend’
-JEALOUSY as she indicates that there should be a level of loyalty in the relationship, perhaps she is a mistress
Act 5, Scene 2
‘one not easily jealous, but being wrought, perplexed to the extreme’
-reached his FATE, crucial point in the DENOUEMENT
-trying to express how Iago has manipulated him, alluding to his actions not being part of his nature but instead were fully a result of Iago’s orchestration → Othello is placing all blame on Iago and failing to take responsibility for his own motivations such as his jealousy
