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Jealousy

See also Envy.

Jesters (See CLOWNS.)

adder’s tongue

flower symbolizes jealousy. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 31]

Anastasia and Orizella

Cinderella’s two step-sisters; jealous of her beauty, they treat her miserably. [Fr. Fairy Tale: Cinderella]

Arnolphe

representative of jealous middle age. [Fr. Lit.: L’Ecole des Femmes]

Bartolo, Dr.

jealous and suspicious tutor. [Fr. Lit.: Barber of Seville]

Calchas

dies from grief on encountering even wiser soothsayer. [Gk. Myth.: LLEI, I: 325]

Callirrhoë

demands of husband former wife’s necklace and robe. [Gk. Legend: NCE, 55]

Cephalus and Procris

young married couple plagued by jealousy. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 62]

coat of many colors

Jacob’s gift to Joseph; object of jealousy. [O.T.: Genesis 37:3]

Deianira

kills husband Hercules for suspected affair with Iole. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 303]

Dionyza

jealously plots Marina’s murder. [Br. Lit.: Pericles]

Donald Duck

frustrated character jealous of Mickey Mouse. [Comics: Horn, 216–217]

Ferrando

of Manrico’s influence on Leonora. [Ital. Opera: Verdi, The Troubadour, Westerman, 302]

Golaud

jealousy leads to the murder of his brother, Pelléas. [Fr. Opera: Debussy, Pelléas and Mélisande, Westerman, 196]

green-eyed monster

epithet. [Br. Lit.: Othello]

Kitelys

man and wife each laughably suspicious of the other’s fidelity. [Br. Lit.: Every Man in His Humour]

Leontes

of wife and Polixenes. [Br. Lit.: The Winter’s Tale]

Malbecco

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]

Medea

sends husband Jason’s new bride poisoned cloak. [Gk. Lit.: Medea; Fr. Lit.: Médée]

Oberon

King of Fairies; jealous of wife’s attachments. [Br. Lit.: A Midsummer Night’s Dream]

Othello

smothers Desdemona out of jealousy. [Br. Lit.: Othello]

Polyphemus

crushes lover’s lover. [Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]

Pozdnishef, Vasyla

murders wife in fit of insane resentment. [Russ. Lit.: The Kreutzer Sonata, Magill I, 481–483]

Shabata, Frank

mistrusted everyone who showed kindness to wife, Marie. [Am. Lit.: 0 Pioneers!, Magill I, 663–665]

wild ass

signifies jealousy. [Animal Symbolism: Jobes, 142]

yellow

color symbolizing jealousy. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 1704]

yellow rose

indicates jealousy. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]