Jealousy In Iago's Play

Iago 's Play “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!/ It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock/The meat it feeds on” (1226). Before this unit, I would not have known that this quote came from one of Shakespeare 's plays. I would even not have understood what it meant, nor how it could set the tone for all of the tragic events that would occur to the characters in his play. Although I first read this work in middle school, I feel that I have read a completely new story reading it years later. This time around, the play was about the reasons the characters behaved the way they did, emotions, and sex, In middle school, the only thing I understood about my constantly-changing emotions was that I didn 't understand them. I knew what it was like to impulsively manipulate things to work
Iago thought far ahead in order for his deceptions to come to pass. He patiently waited for everything to unfold the way that it did. Although his antics irked me the entire play, at the end I could not help but feel something I hadn 't expected. The first time, I mindlessly hated him and was prepared to hate him again. However, instead I was able to step back and see how he masterfully put all of the mismatched pieces of the puzzle together. And this time, I felt admiration for his work. On Thursday, my group tried to focus on the reasoning behind why the characters acted the way they did. For me, it was the first time that I really began to understand Iago and his affect on the other characters. The magic of Iago 's persuasiveness lay in his words and reputation. He was