“Jealousy is a green-eyed monster.” Jealousy can corrupt a person into a monster. In the play Othello, by William Shakespeare, the character Othello was corrupted by jealousy because of somebody else planting ideas in his head. The play began with Othello in love with Desdemona, but by the end of the play the vengeful Iago tricked him into thinking she was cheating. In the beginning of the play, Othello and Desdemona were madly in love. …showed first 75 words of 551 total…

…showed last 75 words of 551 total…of the play, Iago had pushed Othello so hard into believing that Desdemona was cheating that Othello could not even look at her. Othello killed Desdemona. Othello was corrupted from jealousy throughout the play. He believed what “honest Iago” told him , and he fell into the trap. Othello became so jealous that he killed his wife. Even though she was innocent and she did not have a clue what he was talking about when he