Shakespeares Othello and Uncontrolled Jealousy Essays -- Othello essa

Othello and Uncontrolled Jealousy Dominating the booster unit in William Shakespeares tragedy Othello is the passion of sexual green-eyed monster. Dominating the thwarter is another type of jealousy toward Cassio, and hatred toward the general. Let us fashion closely at the idea of jealousy as it is revealed in this drama. Lily B. Campbell in Shakespeares Tragic Heroes definitively categorizes Othello as a claim in jealousy Othello has suffered less in its modern interpretation than any other of Shakespeares tragedies, it would seem. So insistently did Shakespeare keep this tragedy unified about the bag of jealousy and the central victims of the passion, so obviously did he mould his patch about the black Moor and the cunning Iago and the victims of their jealousy that no congressman has been able to ignore the obvious intention of the author. Yet if we study the present-day(a) interpretations of the passion here portrayed, we find that Shakespeare was following in detail a broader and more significant analysis of the passion than has in modern age been understood. The play is, however, clearly a study in jealousy and in jealousy as it affects those of different races. (148) Can we narrow down the concept of jealousy in this play to a specific type? Helen Gardner in Othello A Tragedy of Beauty and Fortune sees this play as a study in sexual jealousy Othello is not a study in pride, egoism, or self-deception its subject is sexual jealousy, loss of assent in a form which involves the whole personality at the dim point where body meets spirit. The solution which Othello cannot accept is Iagos Put up with it. This is as impossible as that Hamlet should, like Claudius, behave as if the past were don... ...TED Bevington, David, ed. William Shakespeare Four Tragedies. new-sprung(prenominal) York Bantam Books, 1980. Campbell, Lily B. Shakespeares Tragic Heroes. New York Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1970. Ferguson, Francis. Two Worldviews Echo Each Other. Re adings on The Tragedies. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 1996. Reprint from Shakespeare The Pattern in His Carpet. N.p. n.p., 1970. Gardner, Helen. Othello A Tragedy of Beauty and Fortune. Readings on The Tragedies. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 1996. Reprint from The Noble Moor. British Academy Lectures, no. 9, 1955. Jorgensen, Paul A. William Shakespeare The Tragedies. Boston Twayne Publishers, 1985. Shakespeare, William. Othello. In The Electric Shakespeare. Princeton University. 1996. http//www.eiu.edu/multilit/studyabroad/othello/othello_all.html No line nos.