Othello Act 3 scene 3

[missbabs]

I'm sure some of you will know the following from Othello Act 3 scene 3 Iago making him jealous. I need to know what lines 4 & 5 actually mean please?? Thanks in anticipation.


O beware my lord of jealousy

It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock

The meat it feeds on: that cuckold lives in bliss

Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger:

But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er

Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!

[carolegif]

A cuckold was a man whose wife was sleeping with another man. Iago is telling Othello that jealousy is all consuming and that the man wronged lives in ignorance of what is going on, but in being so, looks a fool.
This is to make Othello more suspect of Desdemona which is what he wants to get revenge.
At the end of the play Othello kills Desdemona because he thinks she has become infaithful, when in fact she is innocent.

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