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Shakespeare's Jealousy In 'Othello'

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Shakespeare themes vs. Today's news

Jealousy is a very prominent theme is our lives, everyone has felt jealousy at one point in their life. Even in the 1600’s jealousy was a prominent theme. Shakespeare was one of the first people to write about common themes such as jealousy. An example of Shakespeare writing about jealousy is in Othello. In Othello Iago is very jealous of cassio and Othello. Iago feels this way because Cassio got the job position he wanted and he's jealous that Othello has such a great life. Iago acts on this jealousy by making Othello's life as horrible as possible and getting Cassio fired. This theme is still relevant today. For example, ABC news reported a story of a 16 year old girl names Kolb getting very jealous of
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