Jealousy Is the Ugliest Trait

Jealousy is the Ugliest Trait

Is there sincere friendship between two women? There’s a quote from a Japanese drama I once watched when Saki (who does not trust anyone in her life) picked up a slice of ham and said before she put it in her mouth: “Women’s friendship is even thinner than a slice of ham.” Women as we say are “enemies” of each other since we were born, we always see our own kind as a threat, and we are unbelievably competitive, especially between appearance and guys. While men’s friendship are always simple and very long lasting, and men seem to be faithful to their friends all the time.

In ‘Blue Beard’ by Charles Perrault, ‘Goblin Markets’ by Christina Rossetti, and ‘Diabolique’ directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot demonstrate the three main types of friendship occurs in women, the friendship included in ‘Blue Beard’ was shallow, while the sisters in ‘Goblin Markets’ are sacrificial, and in ‘Diabolique’ is jealousy and hatred.

We could see the most common and superficial friendship in ‘Blue Beard’. “They were impatient to see all the rich furniture of her house, and had not dared to come while her husband was there, because of his beard, which frightened them.”(Blue Beard 1) This quote explains the sister in the story and her friends are not exactly close that her friends never had the courage to ask to visit her house because of her scary husband. They don’t want to know her husband so they never want to be too intimate with her. It’s like the most ordinary friendship women has: they meet occasionally, have some food and drink together, and start gossiping and brag about their properties so other women would be jealous. Women are always jealous, and we think the one way to prove that we are successful is if others envy us. We have far more superficial friendship than developed friendship. “They ceased not to extol and envy the happiness of their friend, who in the meantime in no way diverted herself in looking upon all these rich things, because of...