Othello Jealousy Flashcards
Iago professional jealousy of Cassio
“Mere prattle without practice”
Iago criticism of lack of meritocracy
“Preferment goes by letter and affection/and not by old gradation”
Iago jealousy is controllable
“Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our/wills are gardeners”
Women as the victims of jealousy
“Till I am evened with him, wife for wife”
Jealousy as a punishment/spell
“Yet that I put the Moor/at least into a jealousy so strong/that love cannot cure”
Jealousy as uncontrollable
“It is the green eyed monster which doth mock/the meat it feeds on”
Jealousy as blinding
“I took you for that cunning whore of Venice”
Jealousy as created by Iago
“Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office/have not devised this slander”
Jealousy stemming from insecurity/ Male jealousy
“If Cassio do remain/He hath a daily beauty in his life/that make me ugly”
Jealousy as a disproportionate fear
“That she with Cassio hath the act of shame/a thousand times committed”
Jealousy as a need for control, to restore honour
“For naught I did in hate, but all in honour”
