jealousy Flashcards
Oh beware my lord of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on. (act 3 scene 3).
look to your wife, observe
her well with Cassio’ (act 3 scene 3).
damn her, lewd minx!
O, damn her, damn her!’ (the end of act 3 scene 3).
The moor already
changes with my poison’ (act 3 scene 3).
‘One Michael Cassio, a Florentine – a
fellow almost damned in a fair wife
that nevr set
a squadron in the field’ (act 1 scene 1)
‘twixt my sheets he has done
my office’ (act 1 scene 3
What a full fortune does the thick-lips
owe, if he can carry’t thus’ (act 1 scene 1).
‘Call up her father, rouse him,
make after him, poison his delight…’ (act 1 scene 1)
‘But jealous souls will not be answered so; they are not ever jealous for the cause
, but jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster begot upon itself, born on itself’ (Emilia, act 3 scene 4, to Desdemona)
‘O thou foul thief,
where hast thou stow’d my daughter?’ (act 1 scene 2)
Ay, let her rot and perish
… O the world hath not a sweeter creature’ (act 4 scene 1)
Evidence that Othello is not inherently jealous
At the start of act 3 scene 3, Desdemona approaches Othello to talk about Cassio - he says:
“Not now, my sweet Desdemona; some other time.”
- This is further evidenced by his continual requests for ‘ocular proof’ (act 3 scene 3). He tells Iago to ‘give me one living reason she’s disloyal’. (act 3 scene 3).
- ‘Be sure that thou prove my love a *****’ (act 3 scene 3).
- ‘Then you must speak of one that loved not wisely, but too well. Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought perplexed in the extreme’. (act 5 scene 2).
‘I will chop
her into messes. Cuckold me!’
‘No. What’s best to do? If she come in, she’ll sure speak to my wife. My wife?
My wife? What wife? I have no wife.’
