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Jealousy See also Envy. Jesters (See CLOWNS.) adder’s tongue flower symbolizes jealousy. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 31] Cinderella’s two step-sisters; jealous of her beauty, they treat her miserably. [Fr. Fairy Tale: Cinderella] representative of jealous middle age. [Fr. Lit.: L’Ecole des Femmes] jealous and suspicious tutor. [Fr. Lit.: Barber of Seville] dies from grief on encountering even wiser soothsayer. [Gk. Myth.: LLEI, I: 325] demands of husband former wife’s necklace and robe. [Gk. Legend: NCE, 55] young married couple plagued by jealousy. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 62] Jacob’s gift to Joseph; object of jealousy. [O.T.: Genesis 37:3] kills husband Hercules for suspected affair with Iole. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 303] jealously plots Marina’s murder. [Br. Lit.: Pericles] frustrated character jealous of Mickey Mouse. [Comics: Horn, 216–217] of Manrico’s influence on Leonora. [Ital. Opera: Verdi, The Troubadour, Westerman, 302] jealousy leads to the murder of his brother, Pelléas. [Fr. Opera: Debussy, Pelléas and Mélisande, Westerman, 196] epithet. [Br. Lit.: Othello] man and wife each laughably suspicious of the other’s fidelity. [Br. Lit.: Every Man in His Humour] of wife and Polixenes. [Br. Lit.: The Winter’s Tale] seeing his wife living among satyrs, he is so mad with jealosy that he casts himself from a cliff. [Br. Lit.: Spenser The Faerie Queene; Brewer Dictionary, 336] sends husband Jason’s new bride poisoned cloak. [Gk. Lit.: Medea; Fr. Lit.: Médée]
King of Fairies; jealous of wife’s attachments. [Br. Lit.: A Midsummer Night’s Dream] smothers Desdemona out of jealousy. [Br. Lit.: Othello] crushes lover’s lover. [Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses] murders wife in fit of insane resentment. [Russ. Lit.: The Kreutzer Sonata, Magill I, 481–483] mistrusted everyone who showed kindness to wife, Marie. [Am. Lit.: 0 Pioneers!, Magill I, 663–665] signifies jealousy. [Animal Symbolism: Jobes, 142] color symbolizing jealousy. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 1704] indicates jealousy. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He whom the flame of jealousy encompasseth, turneth at last, like the scorpion, the poisoned sting against himself. It has been my experience that, when jealousy flies out of the window, indifference comes in at the door. Instead of their being "joined in affection" and free from all apprehension of different "interests," envy and jealousy would soon extinguish confidence and affection, and the partial interests of each confederacy, instead of the general interests of all America, would be the only objects of their policy and pursuits. |
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