Othello Jealousy Quotes Page 4

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Citations follow this format: (Act.Scene.Line). Line numbers correspond to the Norton edition.

Quote #10

OTHELLO
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought
Perplex'd in the extreme(5.2.341-345)

Othello begs to be spoken of as a man so "perplex'd" that he didn't know what he was doing when he accused Desdemona of infidelity and murdered her. He doesn't want to be remembered as a man who was "easily jealous." Why is that?

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