Quotes - JEALOUSY Flashcards
‘I am worth no worse a place’/‘I know my price.’
1.1
Jealousy over reputation - ‘price’ signals how important status is in Elizabethan society and throughout the play as a whole.
‘Match you with her country forms, and repent.’
Othello’s sexual jealousy arises from insecurity, or rather the insecurity that is projected onto him by Iago, who weaponises race against him to make Desdemona’s adultery plausible.
‘jealous souls…are not ever jealous for the cause.’
3.4
Jealousy is destructive by its very nature - it’s irrational and can quickly spiral out of control, taken advantage of by Iago, who weaponises it.
‘Arise black vengeance from the hollow hell.’
Presents jealousy as a primal and evil force through biblical imagery associated with jealousy - jealousy is a sin. CONTEXT OF RELIGION.
‘Monster.. born on itself.’
EMILIA
Metaphor of jealousy
‘Green-eyed monster… mock the meat it feeds on.’
Chremamorphism
‘One not easily jealous’/‘perplexed in the extreme.’
Othello falls subject to the ‘monster’ of jealousy, but describes himself as above.
ANYBODY would’ve fell for jealousy due to Iago’s actions - it was inevitable.
(KENNETH TYAN disagrees saying that ‘Othello is the most easily jealous man’ whereas T.S Elliot says that ‘Iago simple exploited a weakness that already existed in Othello’s character)
‘My life upon her faith’ (1.3) / ‘Her name.. is now beguiled and black.’ (3.3)
3.3 is the downfall of Othello’s character.
Othello views her infidelity as a threat to his authority - signals a change in Othello’s loyalty and perception of Desdemona.
‘Such a handkerchief.. see Cassio..’
3.3
Symbolism of the handkerchief displays Othello’s change in love to jealousy as it’s manipulated by Iago to create a non-existing unfaithfulness.
DESIGN - white background with strawberries - conveys chastity ( women’s stereotype )
Passes through characters to perhaps represent how everybody is involved within a private relationship documenting the conflict of the fallibility of the marital institution.
