Speech on Jealousy in Othello

The Green Eyed Monster. No other monster is as terrifying. It fangs go deeper than Dracula's. Unlike the Werewolf, its malevolent form haunts you not only at night, but every hour of the day, every second. But what makes it more terrifying, of course, is that it's real. Everyone at some stage falls victim to jealousy. Shakespeare's Othello gives us a glimpse of what 17th Century English society thought about Jealousy as a motivating force. …

…cannot bare any other man to have what is his. Furthermore, it is also Othello's excessive pride as a form of jealousy that motivates him to kill Desdemona rather than be ridiculed. Jealousy as a motivating force in Elizabethan society, was a force of many forms. It ensnared the best and worst of people, and in terms of the actions it made people carry out, the metaphor of a monster is appropriate for the emotion.