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A Winter's Tale - Why is Leontes so jealous of Hermione and Polixenes and why does he think they are having an affair?
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Nick Magill 30/09/03 Why is Leontes so jealous of Hermione and Polixenes and why does he think they are having an affair? By the time Leontes has become certain his suspicions that his wife is having an affair are true he is undoubtedly in the grip of a mental illness. This is the main reason behind the development of his jealousy of Polixenes. Leontes and Polixenes have been close friends since an early age but Leontes seems to forget this friendship whilst jealousy takes him over as he think he is seeing his wife moving away from him. The problem, ironically, is started by Leontes. Leontes is desperate for Polixenes to stay longer with him in Sicily but Polixenes refuses on the grounds that he has a child back in Bohemia and that he must go home and be an active king again. Leontes fails to tempt Polixenes into staying an extra...
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