Our ancient literature has always prescribed to have control over our internal desires – sexual, anger, jealousy, pride and wants. In spite of it been percolating for centuries to enlighten good, for its trueness, people willingly surrendered themselves fully to these by large. Let us take the example of sex. Sexual infidelities are far too many than seen by our eyes or heard of. It has become a part and parcel of life losing its divinity. Nowadays, people without hesitation offer themselves for sex, clearly unwilling for any relationship. The body of both man and woman turned so material that it can be used for a temporary pleasure – anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Just like changing clothes. Safe keeping the virginity for ‘the one’ has become a taboo. People laugh at the mere mention of it and disbelief that such a thing can exist. Anger management has become another issue eating away the …show more content…
It may soften and stay calm, but a small fuel can blaze it out burst. It hasn’t died and would not. As a fire, it only can burn down a person, than bring light. Jealousy is prevailing in many aspects – about partners, jobs, relationships and many more. It turned like a plague these days – never ending, never stop spreading. Pride is relatively paranoid. Sometimes taking pride and being proud is good, but often times it has negative impacts than being modest. And it starts controlling your brain. Proudness of someone will undermine others, things around, culture, beliefs and even the faith in God. This is like a poison in the body, it can only spread to whole than subdue. Wants and desires – hmm ! what can I say, my writing itself is due a want to prove the darkness of this world. Desires are like first time blood tasting by the tiger cubs. Once started it is always on the rise for more and always needed. People in this world have become slaves of desires. Not many can control. Desire ones born never die – until the body dies
Jealousy in Julius Caesar & nbsp; Jealousy causes many of the characters in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar to commit dangerous and foolish acts. Cassius' jealousy drives him to kill. Caesar. All the conspirators, except the noble Brutus, kill Caesar because they feel threatened by his power. Brutus is the only conspirator who murders Caesar. for more honorable reasons. Jealousy is a very important theme in this play. & nbsp; Cassius feels very threatened by Caesar's power. He remembers when he was an equal to Caesar, and doesn't think that Caesar deserves this much power. He comments to Brutus, "I was born free as Caesar; so were you." fed as well, and we can both endure the cold winter as well as he" (Act I, p. 1).
Most religions of the world address moral issues that arise from people's sexuality within the human interactions. “Sex and religion- two of the most powerful, passionate, and poetic aspects of human existence”( “Manning and Zuckerman pg. 1“). There are many distinct religious beliefs about the complexion of sexuality and the appropriateness of various sexual behaviors. “Some religious (or aspects within them) can be described as comparatively “sex positive”. By “sex positive“, we mean that sensual, erotic activity involving the consensual pursuit and / or actualization of gratifying bodily pleasure is understood as natural and acceptable , even holy. Conversely, some religions (or aspects within them) can be described as “sex negative”, that is, sensual, erotic activity involving the consensual pursuit and / or actualization of gratifying bodily pleasure is understood as unnatural and unacceptable, even sinful” ( “Manning and Zuckerman pg. 2“).
seen as a sort of sermon on the sins of pride and jealousy, hidden in
It's not love that is blind, but jealousy. In this beautiful small town of Venice, there is moor and his beautiful wife Desdemona, and the evil Iago, Roderigo, and Cassio. Othello is married to the beautiful Desdemona. He is an honorable man he was loyal to Venice, he was the general of an army. All of a sudden he started to act different, he started to change because Iago had told him that his wife Desdemona was fooling around with Cassio. Othello believes Iago because he trusted Iago, the same way he trusted everyone. Rodrigo had found out about Iago's plan to try to ruin Othello's life, so the two started to work together because Rodrigo was jealous that Othello had Desdemona and he wants her, Iago was jealous of the fact that Othello was trusted too much with many things, he was jealous that everyone loved Othello. So Iago planned everything out He planted things and messed with people's minds to have everything go down. Jealous is everywhere because you might want something that someone else has, you might wanna be just like someone, you might just want something just for yourself that you believe anything
The Bhagavad-Gita and Plato’s Symposium both originate from two vastly different cultures, with the former being archetypal of Eastern thought and the latter existing as a foundation of Western philosophy. Despite their differences in origin, there is significant overlap in the ideas presented in the two texts. Both The Bhagavad-Gita and Symposium vilify desire to a certain extent, stating that abstinence from desire is the only way to pursue knowledge with clarity. However, the philosophies of the two texts diverge with respect to the relationship between desire and power, with The Bhagavad-Gita viewing desire as weakening the individual and Symposium presenting it as a means for empowerment.
Jealousy is one of the harsher and more passionate faces of Love in Ancient Greek Society. Societal norms for love and relationships dictate that older men are the lovers who pursue women and young boys. Love infects the pursuer and causes him to have intense feelings about the object of his desire, but not always vice versa. Consequently jealousy is seen more as the active partner’s disease and is commonly associated as a male emotion. Women also experience jealousy but they are not supposed to be the pursuers in relationships according to societal norms. Since society only excuses the pursuer in the relationship acting on jealous impulses, a women doing so was improper because she was not supposed to be the active partner in the relationship. Hence jealousy was much more widely accepted as a ‘man’s’ disease. By examining the views of society in The Women of Trachis and the Legal Text VIII, Wounding with Intent to Kill: Quarrel over a boy, on love as a sickness, controlling jealousy, and how to win back a lost love, we can conclude that Love’s face of jealousy in Ancient Greek society appears to only be accepted as a predominately male emotion.
His writing displays more morally proactive instruction with religious references or emphasis on the pain and suffering our submission to temptation can inflict. With his progression in understanding human nature, he simultaneously makes the result of succumbing to desire or committing adultery in his novels increasingly worse over time. His works suggest that erotic desire, including the desire to have an affair, is a part of human nature and to a degree understandable. However, Tolstoy wants his audience to understand that even though it may be human nature, we should not allow this desire to dictate the ways in which we live our lives, for desire is fickle and does not lead to lasting happiness. Tolstoy shows that the consequences of affairs serving our desires outweigh the benefits. The consequences not only harm ourselves, but many people in our lives. By showing how much damage an affair can cause, Tolstoy implores us to not allow the animal in man to overcome our moral
Shakespeare is prominent in his use of recurring themes throughout his works, particularly those of love, death, and betrayal. All these themes are present in Othello. Most para- mount, however, is jealousy. Jealousy runs the characters’ lives in Othello from the beginning of the play, when Roderigo is envi- ous of Othello because he wishes to be with Desdemona, and to the end of the play, when Othello is furious with envy because he believes Cassio and Desdemona have been engaging in an affair. Some characters’ jealousy is fashioned by other charac- ters. Iago is involved in much of this, creating lies and imple- menting misleading situations. He is consumed with jealousy of Cassio and masked with hatred of Othello because he was not chosen as lieutenant, Cassio was. Iago is selfish in that he wants everyone to feel as he does so he engineers the jealousy of other
Shakespeare’s Othello is a play consistently based on jealously and the way it can destroy lives. One is quick to think this jealously is based on Othello’s lack of belief in Desdemona’s faithfulness to him or his suspensions over Desdemona’s affair with Cassio, Othello’s honorable lieutenant. Upon closer inspection of the jealously that exists throughout the play it becomes clear that his jealously is not the sole start and reason for all of the destruction that occurs. Iago, a good friend of Othello, is not who he appears to be. Iago’s own jealously of those around him pushes him over the edge. He begins to deceive all those who believe he is a true, honorable, and faithful man. Throughout Othello, Iago incites his own jealously in others, begins to take advantage of those around him, and does not relent on anyone who gets in his way to gain what he craves most: power.
Within almost every piece of literature contains some substantial amount of human conflict. Without human conflict stories can easily lack of a readers interest. One of the most amazing types of human conflict in literature is jealousy, mainly because jealousy is a well effected method of twisting human emotions, and is known to spice up almost any situation in a story. In Othello we see cases of jealousy in every scene that defiantly keeps readers interested in the story, but is it the most important part of the story.
She is not known as the green-eyed monster for her love and tenderness. She is not known as the green-eyed monster for her selflessness. She is not known as the green-eyed monster for her purity and sensitivity. Jealousy is known as the green-eyed monster purely for the reason that she is a monster. Not only does this demon have the ability to control one’s sense of reality, but also tear apart happiness with her long, sharp nails. Jealousy will use its revolting, fiery breath in order to burn the good in someone’s heart into a worthless pile of ashes. However, jealousy does not stop there. She crawls inside one’s head, whispering its manipulative thoughts repetitively to the point of destruction. After jealously has spoiled the brain rotten,
In Shakespeare's Othello there is several occasions and examples of the destructive nature of jealousy because it made all Othello lack communication and he made himself very easy to manipulate. Also it made other characters do bad things, such as setting up others to look bad. This idea of destructive nature of jealousy still applies in today's modern world.
In 1297AD, pride was described as “A consciousness or feeling of what is befitting or due to oneself or one's position, which prevents a person from doing what he considers to be beneath him or unworthy of him; esp. as a good quality, legitimate, ‘honest’, or ‘proper pride’, self-respect; also as a mistaken or misapplied feeling, ‘false pride’” (OED 4). This type of pride is personal pride and the image a person must maintain to keep it. A person cannot allow them self to act in such a way that would be demeaning. An example of this would be a drill sergeant getting down with his recruits and performing the same demeaning drills as they are. The sergeant’s years of hard work and service would not be taken seriously if he were to lower himself to the level of their recruits therefore lowering his sense of pride.
People tend to associate with others who share the same values and morals as they do. People who are unfaithful tend to assume that everyone is, while those who remain faithful tend to believe that extramarital affairs are unusual. Since infidelity takes on several different forms, it is appropriate to consider the fact that many people believe that this sort of behaviour would be considered acceptable.
Jealousy, whatever it may be driven by, can produce many different actions in a person depending on their desires. Othello craftly examines a few examples of these with highly contrasting characters driven by vastly different things. The different manifestations of jealousy in said characters can be analysed through the characters of Roderigo, Othello, and Iago, while also proving how jealousy can sometimes be a front for more cynister feelings.