In everyone's life there is always a person you think you can trust, and then you discover that he has been playing you all along. This is exactly the case with Othello. Iago, who Othello thought was someone he could trust, betrayed him in many horrible ways. As you read the famous Shakespearean play, Othello, the Moor of Venice, you realize quite quickly that Iago is the evil character in this play. Readers don't actually get to see a good side to Iago, if there is any, because he constantly uses and plays people. Readers will also learn that, no matter how evil he may be perceived to be, Iago is a coward, using other people to do most of his dirty work for him. The story of Othello begins in Venice when Roderigo and Iago have an argument. discussion. Before the discussion with Iago, Roderigo discovers that Desdemona has already been given in marriage to an Othello, however dark. Iago is enraged by this news and decides that he now has more than one reason to hate Othello. Othello not only got the woman Iago so desperately wants, but he just beat him to the position of lieutenant to Michael Cassio, who does not have Iago's experience. Iago and Roderigo go to the house of Brabantio, Desdemona's father, to inform him that his beloved daughter has been kidnapped and has married a Moor. They tell him to go and check on his daughter to see if she is at home, when Brabantio goes to check his daughter's room he realizes that she has disappeared and immediately sends some of his officers to look for Othello. These events demonstrate that Iago will take every opportunity he can to stab Othello, no matter what the risks may be, if the king...... middle of paper... as expected runs away from the problem at hand. Eventually Othello kills Desdemona, and then realizes that she was telling the truth all along, unable to face this he kills himself. Iago ends up killing Emilia and tries to escape, but is stopped by Lodovico and Montano. He is then sentenced to death. There are many, many ways a reader can observe and analyze Iago, but most can agree that he is in no way a very good or kind person. He is a conniving coward who is a very jealous person and wants to have all the power he can get his hands on, no matter what the cost, unless the cost is his own life, of course. Works Cited Shakespeare. Othello, the Moor of Venice. Literature and the writing process. Ed. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X Day and Robert Funk. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice, 2008.951-1038. Press.
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