To understand this quote better we should first consider the meaning of the word “jealousy” and “green-eyed monster”.

“Jealousy is a state of fear, suspicion, revenge or envy caused by a real or imagined threat or challenge to one’s possessive instincts. It may be provoked by rivalry, in sexual love, by competition or by desires for the qualities or possessions of another” according to The New Lexicon Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary.

“Green is a colour of many unripe foods which cause stomach pains.” According to the website http://phrases.shu.ac.uk. Shakespear often uses green colour to describe jealousy because its taste is very similar to jealousy. Here because many cats have green eyes and often play with mice, their food before eating them, similar action as when one is jealousy of an

It’s their jealousy that links the whole play. Every one’s selfish from the time when they are born and this leads to the clue why when people are jealous, they can do anything for return of the one they wish to get. They can suffer, can lose and can become very cruel towards their rivalry. If there were no jealousy, the whole play would start differently, the scenes would not be so tension and the end would not be so sad. It’s only the jealousy that make the two major characters to do things that hurt the others and themselves as well. If there were no jealousy Roderigo would not listen to Iago and would also not fight with Cassio and this will create a barrier to Iago’s plan and of course if Iago is not jealous of Cassio and Othello’s position, he would not try to control Othello and to kill others. If there were no jealousy Othello would live very happily with Desdemona and no one will be killed. Therefore jealousy is the major key that causes all the unhappiness and links the scenes in the play.

All the victims of jealousy were “Lords”, were real men. They were all heroes and lived happily, but once “jealousy” appears, they’re out of mind and control; their evil side is at once exposed to the audience. Jealousy is not only itself a “monster” for its victims, but it changes its victims into “monsters” themselves, who “mock the me

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