Essay on Jealousy in Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, and Winters Tale

Jealousy in such(prenominal) Ado About Nothing, Othello, and Winters Tale The common thread of green-eyed monster ties unitedly the main plots in Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, and The Winters Tale. In severally of these plays, the main conflict is centered around some form of jealousy. magic spell jealousy is the mutual, most prominent cause for turmoil in these plays, its set up on the characters, and ultimately the plots, is different in distributively case. This difference has ofttimes to do with the personal manner in which the concept of jealousy is woven into all(prenominal) play, and what it is intended to accomplish. In Othello, the jealousy factor is deliberately introduced by Iago, with the minute intention of destroying those whom he feels have wronged him. Since it is intentionally used with malicious intent, it has ruinous results. Iago himself is jealous of Cassio he feels that he should have been appointed to Cassios position by Othello, and since he wa snt he hates both Othello and Cassio. Iago channels the jealousy that Othello and Cassio have do him feel, and uses it against them in a hateful plan. Iago starts the process by planting the seeds of jealousy in Othellos mind, telling him Desdemona has been treacherous. He then proceeds to cultivate the outgrowth jealousy by feeding it with more lies, and twisting innocent events into situations which would deal his needs (his telling Othello that Cassio and Desdemona met in secret, and convincing him that Desdemona vied for Cassios reinstatement as lieutenant because she love him, for example). When the seeds had flourished, and Iago had succeeded in driving Othello mad with jealousy, Iago harvested his crop and convinced Othello to kill Desdemona. Othellos cleansing Desdemona would both rid Iago of Desde... ...l effects, and when the mistake of jealousy was revealed the problem was solved and either one could be happy. In each of these plays, jealousy is used as a means of producing a conflict and creating trouble in the lives of the characters. The jealousy in each play, although it is introduced in a different way, always involves a man being jealous of his wife (or fiance, in Heros case) being unfaithful with another man. Whether he misinterpret something he sees, or believe calumniatory lies, the mans jealousy builds until it forces him to do something to punish his unfaithful woman. At the end of each play, the man is made to realize his mistake, but sometimes the damage force out not be undone. Jealousy is the main crisis in each eccentric of play - tragedy, trage-comedy, and comedy - but its results lie strictly in the way it is introduced, and the intended severity.