| I know my price, I am worth no worse a place. | Iago is jealous of Cassio’s promotion |
| Preferment goes by letter and affection | Iago makes excuses for why he hasn’t been promoted |
| Othello loves Desdemona ‘not wisely but too well’ | Strength of Othello’s love for Desdemona is where jealousy arises from |
| Iago: ‘Cassio’s daily beauty…makes me ugly.’ | Iago is jealous of Cassio’s attractive personality |
| ‘Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards.’ | Iago relates the thought of Emilia’s infidelity to poison |
| Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell! | Shakespeare associates the effects of jealousy with the imagery of hell |
| It is the green eyed monsterwhich doth mock the meat it feeds upon | Shakespeare creates a metaphor for the consuming force of jealousy |
| One not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplexed in the extreme | Othello on his personality |
| The sun where he was born drew all such humours from him | Desdemona refuses to believe Othello is jealous |
Jealousy in ‘Othello’
July 24, 2019