Week Four
Jealousy, envy


Munch: Jealousy
Or you
could tell it from the point of view of the envied person.
It’s
often claimed by the super-rich, or just the ordinary rich even, that those who
cry for social justice and equality are really just envious/jealous of those
who have made it, worked
hard, dedicated themselves.
Some
jealousy, such as sexual jealousy, turns itself into violence. If you removed the wife’s or husband’s lover
then the jealousy is removed. But then
will you be jealous of his/her grief?
Sometimes,
as in Thomas Hardy’s The Tramp Woman’s Tragedy,
the jealousy may be deliberately provoked just to wind up the partner –
in in this poems kills the not-really rival.
Sibling
jealousy occurs a lot of tales and literature.
Is this insecurity?
Sometimes
the jealousy is illusory? It’s a matter
of the insecurity of the person feeling it?
Then of
course there is the terrible condition of ‘penis envy’ which apparently all women suffer from.
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