“Why, why is this? / Do you think I would live a life of jealousy, / to still follow the changes of the moon / with new suspicions? NO! To be in doubt once... / And as proof there is nothing other than this: / Away immediately with love or jealousy!” (3.3.181-197). Othello states that he will not be destroyed by jealousy. He says that Desdemona “had eyes and chose him” even though he was black. “Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuating, / nor diminish anything with malice: then you must speak / of one who has loved not wisely but too well, / of one who is not easily jealous, but who is perplexed / perplexed in the extreme ." (5.2.358-362). Othello asks to be described as a man so perplexed that he didn't know what he was doing when he accused Desdemona of disloyalty and killed her. He doesn't want to be remembered as someone who gets jealous easily. “While he will smile, Othello will go mad. / And his bookless jealousy must interpret / poor Cassio's smiles, gestures and light behavior / entirely wrong (4.1.90-93). what Cassio says will fuel Othello with even more jealousy. Othello only causes so much trouble because Iago planted that little seed of jealousy in him that continued to grow from every lie he heard about..