Iago makes it one of his goals to have manipulated Othello into thinking he doesn’t need any proof aside from what Iago says about the accusations of Desdemona’s infidelity. Just as Iago had planned Othello starts to trust and confide in Iago as a close friend unknowing that the things Iago tells him are false, the proof that Iago truly has Othello metaphorically eating out of the palm of his hand is when Othello begins to put Iago on a pedestal and says, “This fellow 's of exceeding honesty, / And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, / Of human dealings" (III.iii.258-260) While Iago may have, at a time been honest, Othello shouldn’t have trusted him so blindly and let Iago’s word deter him from questioning the accusations of Desdemona’s …show more content…
The fact that Desdemona remains clueless throughout the quickly spreading rumors of her alleged affair make her oblivious that her of her praise of Cassio is taken by Othello as proof of their affair. Othello also thinks that he has found proof of the affair when Desdemona looses the handkerchief that Othello had given to her as a token of his love and fidelity. Despite his search of actual proof Othello takes the misunderstood events such as Desdemona loosing the handkerchief, and her praise of Cassio, to confirm his suspicions of their affair and unknowingly provide him with false