quotes about JEALOUSY

Question 1

Mere prattle without practice - (Iago)

Answer 1

act 1 scene 1
analysis : shows jealousy Iago has over Cassio - he really feels jealous of him

Question 2

Preferment goes by letter and affection - (Iago)

Answer 2

act 1 scene 1
analysis : again his jealous rage blurs his sense of reality - he’s unsure of the truth anymore, blindly follows his jealousy

Question 3

Beware my Lord, of jealousy It is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on - (Iago)

Answer 3

act 3 scene 3
analysis : Iago warns Othello of his plotting, almost pre-warning Othello of his downfall

Question 4

To be once in doubt is once to be resolved - (Othello)

Answer 4

act 3 scene 3
analysis : depicts Othello as wholeheartedly trusting his gut and also depicts how he irrationally makes a decision on his wife and her fidelity

Question 5

Give me a living reason she’s disloyal - (Othello)

Answer 5

act 3 scene 3
analysis : Othello finds it difficult to believe Desdemona’s infidelity because he trusts her and loves her

Question 6

I’ll tear her all to pieces - (Othello)

Answer 6

act 3 scene 3
analysis : jealousy overpowers Othello until he looses his sanity and rage replaces loves

Question 7

I think the sun from where he was born drew all such humours fro him - (Desdemona)

Answer 7

act 3 scene 4
analysis : depicts Desdemona’s naievty and innocence - that she believes he could never do something wrong

Question 8

Here’s a young and sweating devil - (Othello)

Answer 8

act 3 scene 4
analysis : Othello sees Desdemona’s moist hand and assumes she is disloyal because of it - demonstrates Othello’s jealousy which is causing him to act irrationally

Question 9

Is this man not jealous? - (Emilia)
I never saw this before - (Desdemona)

Answer 9

act 3 scene 4
analysis : Desdemona’s naievty juxtaposes with Emilia’s intuition. depicts the change in Othello, how he is no longer himself, how greatly jealousy has changed him

Question 10

You are jealous now - (Cassio)

Answer 10

act 3 scene 4
analysis : Cassio is able to diable Bianca’s fit of jealousy and assure her that he is faithful

Question 11

Lie with her, lie on her ! I tremble at it - (Othello)

Answer 11

act 4 scene 1
analysis : Othello cannot contain his jealousy - it takes over him.

Question 12

my lord is fallen into an epilepsy - (Iago)

Answer 12

act 4 scene 1
analysis : jealousy physically takes over Othello, demonstrates just how distraught he is

Question 13

they laugh that win - (Othello)

Answer 13

act 4 scene 1
analysis : Othello is fully overtaken by his jealousy - he no longer can think rationally anymore

Question 14

she must die else she’ll betray more men - (Othello)

Answer 14

act 5 scene 1
analysis : Othello’s jealousy is so overwheming - the only way he can rationalise it is by sentencing Desdemona and murdering her.

Question 15

thou dost stone my heart - (Othello)

Answer 15

act 5 scene 2
analysis : othello’s jealousy physically causes him pain

Question 16

she’s like a liar gone to burning hell … she was false as water - (Othello)

Answer 16

act 5 scene 2
analysis : demonstrates how ruined Othello’s sight is, he truly belives Desdemona has committed something terrible. he trusts his hatred over his wife.