Jealousy
adder’s tongueflower 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]
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