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Issue: Jealousy Sub Issues

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Dramatic/language technique

1. Deception

Iago’s machinations stems from his jealousy of Cassio’s status and Othello, who is rumoured of adultery with his wife

“... I hate the Moor; And it is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets has done my office. I know not if't be true; yet I, for mere suspicion in that kind, will do as if for surety.

Racist comments “moor”

I am not what I am

Dramatic irony

“Old black ram” “thick lips” “beast with two backs” “moor”

Metaphor emphasises Othello’s animalistic and brute nature, perpetuates the stereotype of African people’s sexual exoticism

2. Prejudice fueled by the jealousy of characters

Racial prejudice to Othello is constantly mentioned throughout, majorly from Iago and Roderigo’s jealousy of Othello Gender inequality upon women, derived from Othello’s jealousy of Cassio

Phrase ‘thick lips’ highlights his exoticism and the divisive, racially

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charged nature of the play “the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor” “sooty bosom Of such a thing as thou”

Calls Othello a thing, not an individual, and also points out his colour/exoticism again - unjust prejudice

“ 3. Insecurity can be exploited and manipulated to turn into jealousy, which leads to doubt of Desdemona’s fidelity and ultimately Othello’s downfall

Othello is seen as inferior despite his status and is quite insecure.

“Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.” (III.iii.)

Dramatic irony

Trifles light as air Simile, soliloquy Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. (III.iii.)

Iago says this with false earnesty displays his duplicitous nature and adds to tension - saying the word “jealousy” and conjuring an offensive visual image will intensify Othello’s concern

Causes Othello to view the situation with more urgency → makes rash decisions

Use of the color green stems from a Renaissance belief that green was a “bilious hue,” linked to an imbalance of the humors that caused fear and jealousy.

Iago’s plan where he plants Desdemona’s handkerchief in Cassio’s room utilises Othello’s

Othello’s own insecurities are going to lead to his downfall - sees everything as proof of Desdemona

“As proofs of holy writ” - biblical reference, means that Othello will overthink about the handkerchief’s

insecurities - The handkerchief is of little significance but Othello, who is already jealous enough, will take it in the wrong way "Haply, for I am black And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have, or for I am declined Into the vale of years – yet that's not much – She's gone."

cheating as he is insecure about his own status

significance and take it as evidence directly from the Bible...