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Examples Of Envy In Othello

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The term green with envy has been around for a very long time, all the while, the meaning has remained the exact same way. The connection between the use in the past and the current use is the same. Originally the term was used by Shakespeare in the sixteenth-seventieth century. In Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Othello, Iago warns Othello and says “Beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” A similar phrase was also used by Shakespeare in his plays Antony and Cleopatra and Merchant of Venice. Due to Shakespeare’s fame and importance to literature, eventually another famous author picked up the phrase. This author was Mark Twain: the work he used the line in was A Connecticut Yankee in
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