jealousy quotes Flashcards
Iago is jealous of Cassio’s position and thinks that he has not earned his place
“Not by the old gradation, where each second / stood heir to the first .”
Iago has jealousy towards Othello as he thinks he has slept with his wife
“And it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets / He’s done my office.”
Iago plants the seeds of jealousy in Othello’s mind by implying Cassio was guilty of something
“Ha! I like not that.”
“That he would steal away so guilty-like”
Desdemona furthers the seed of doubt in Othello’s mind by referring to Cassio by an ambiguous word
“I have been talking with a suitor here”
Iago talks about his own experience with jealousy and likens it to a plague that he cannot control
“As I confess it is my natures plague / to spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy shapes faults that are not”
Iago’s metaphor for jealousy.
“O beware, my lord, of jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on.”
Othello resists the urge to feel jealous and says that if he doubts something he will either prove or disprove it
“I’ll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; / And on the proof, there is no more but this: / Away at once with love or jealousy!”
Othello is feeling insecure in Venetian society
Jealousy preys on insecurity
“Haply for I am black, / And have not those soft parts of conversation / That chamberers have”
Iago fuels the jealous fire by stating that the proof Othello wants would be completely in-dignifying, planting images in his head
“Give me the ocular proof”
“Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on? / Behold her topped?”
Jealousy is changing the man that Desdemona knew and she has never seen his jealous side and was not expecting him to have one
“I think the sun where he was born / Drew all such humours from him.”
“The handkerchief!”
Emilia is saying that people are jealous with no reason behind it. (Othello’s case is different)
“They are not ever jealous for the cause, / But jealous for they’re jealous.”
Iago is letting Othello’s mind fill in the blanks by suggesting things that Desdemona has done and letting Othello’s mind go into painful detail
“With her, on her, what you will.”
Othello says jealousy is uncharacteristic for him
“one not easily jealous”
