Maureen Dowd: OJ Simpson and the Monster Jealousy

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He escaped in criminal trial but not in his civil trial, though he never paid penalty or expressed any penance

was dead at 76. And that scene of violence was eerily quiet on a shimmering spring day in Los Angeles.

But I always thought of it as a great American tragedy. It had echoes of “Othello,” the most trenchant work ever written on the fatal flaw of jealousy.Shocking killing sparks debate about China’s ‘left behind’ children Desdemona, his wife, was confused, because Othello was spun up over false information. Her servant, Emilia, explained that jealous people “are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster, begot upon itself, born on itself.”‘ did not escape the opprobrium of many in America who felt that he got away with murder’

OJ escaped in his criminal trial but not in his civil trial, though he never paid the penalty or expressed any penance. I drove an hour outside Los Angeles to the Ascension cemetery in Lake Forest. There were bougainvilleas, carnations, sunflowers and daisies heaped on the plain dark marble marker at Nicole Brown Simpson’s grave. People had left teddy bears and rosaries.

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