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Learn how Shakespeare used the phrase 'green-eyed monster' to describe jealousy in Othello and The Merchant of Venice. Find out the origin, history and examples of this idiomatic expression and its variations.
Learn the meaning and origin of the phrase 'green-eyed monster', which means jealousy, from Shakespeare's plays. Find out how to use it in different contexts and see related expressions.
The image of a “green-eyed monster” suggests that jealousy is a sickening force that will overpower and eat away at Othello. This statement can be seen as dramatic irony: the audience knows...
Shakespeare Quotes. The green-eyed monster. Othello Act 3, scene 3, 165–171. The green-eyed monster. Iago: O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which...
Iago’s anthropomorphizing of jealousy as a “green-eyed monster” is famous, and his use of the color green stems from a Renaissance belief that green was a “bilious hue,” linked to an imbalance of the humors that caused fear and jealousy. Trifles light as air. Are to the jealous confirmations strong. As proofs of holy writ. (III.iii.)
In this famous metaphor, Iago cautions Othello by comparing jealousy to a green-eyed monster that ridicules its victims even as it is eating them; ironically, the monstrous Iago is at this very moment seeding jealousy in Othello.
Iago tells Othello to beware of jealousy, the “green-eyed monster which doth mock/ The meat it feeds on” (III.iii. 170–171). Likewise, Emilia describes jealousy as dangerously and uncannily self-generating, a “monster / Begot upon itself, born on itself” (III.iv. 156–157 ).
