ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -(That’s what we call irony.) So when he says “O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meet it feeds on, ” what he’s actually saying is “I hope you become jealous and kill your wife, because that would, ironically, fulfill all my plans.

Detailed explanation-2: -’O, beware my lord of jealousy./It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on. ‘ Iago begins to turn Othello against the ‘worthy’ Cassio and Desdemona.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the play, the phrase “the green eyed monster” referrers to jealousy. In Act 3, Scene 3, while trying to make Othello envious, Iago uses this phrase. The villain plants the seeds of doubt in Othello’s mind about Desdemona’s betrayal. As a result, the Moor is blinded by jealousy and mistreats his wife.

Detailed explanation-4: -“O beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” Shakespeare had previously used the idea in The Merchant of Venice where Portia refers to “green-eyed jealousy” (Act 3, Scene 2). In Renaissance England most emotions were matched with colours.