How Shakespeare explores jealousy: how it grows in Othello from a hint to murder, the envy and suspicion that drive Iago, and the smaller jealousies of Bianca and Roderigo across the text, and why it matters to the text's meaning.
Where it appears, the key quotations that show it, and different ways it can be interpreted.
Evidence from the beginning, middle and end of the text.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on', 'Is he not jealous?', 'They are not ever jealous for the cause, / But jealous for they are jealous', 'I'll have some proof', 'If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself! / I'll not believe't', 'I had been happy, if the general camp, / Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body', 'Why did I marry?', 'A horned man's a monster and a beast', 'Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be damned to-night'.
Jealousy as a monster that feeds on itself: Iago's suspicion of Othello and Cassio, Othello's from the temptation scene to the murder, and Bianca's over Cassio, with Othello taking up Iago's animal images as it grows.
Context that helps a reading: the cuckold's horns and the shame of a husband thought betrayed.
Eduqas's Shakespeare questions don't mark context: the extract question (15 marks) and the whole-play essay (20 marks, plus 5 for spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structures) both mark response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2). Use context only in a phrase that supports an interpretation, and say which question each worked paragraph practises.
