Appearance vs Reality is one of the most fundamental and oldest philosophical themes in human history. All people live their lives relying on their own knowledge and perception and are therefore tied to them. These boundaries are what they tend to accept as “reality”. However, knowledge and perception are both vague concepts; consequently, their reality may be nothing more than a mere mirage shaped by their beliefs. William Shakespeare, one of the most renowned writers in the English language, knew the connection between appearance and reality and often provided his characters with multiple personalities to portray them in a specific way. In Shakespeare's play Othello, the antagonist (named Iago) embodies the theme of people not always being what they seem, as he misleads Othello and other characters into a treacherous world composed of deceptive truths in which they find themselves unable to distinguish what it seems. being real and what is actually real. At the beginning of the play, when Iago tries to convince Roderigo to help him get revenge on Oth...