Othello Themes
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- Jealousy
- 'A passion most unsuiting such a man' IV.1.78
- "Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of holy writ. (Act III, Scene 4).
- Emilia:"But jealous souls will not be answered so; / They are not ever jealous for the cause, / But jealous for they are jealous: 'tis a monster / Begot upon itself, born on itself.
- compares jealousy to a monster, claiming that jealousy is spawned by itself. According to Emilia, events do not cause jealousy; jealousy causes events and further jealousy.
- "O, beware, my lord of jealousy; / It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on." (Act III, Scene 3)
- Othello
- tragic hero
- noble hero / loving husband
- His reputation is essential to him
- "valient Othello" 1.3
- DOWNFALL
- jealousy overwhelms him
- overcomes racial predjudice to become military hero
- naive,proud
- noble hero / loving husband
- tragic hero
- IAGO
- "inhuman dog" V.1
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