Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is about a man that marries and he is tricked, by a friend named Iago, into believing that his wife cheated on him with a close friend of his, Cassio. After he is tricked into believing this, he murders his wife, but soon finds out through other characters that his wife never cheated on him and he wrongly accused his friend and wife of adultery. When he finds out that Iago lied to him, Othello attacks Iago and then kills himself. After Othello dies Iago also dies of his injuries next to all of the others that died like Othello, Emilia (Iago’s wife), and Desdemona (Othello’s wife). A villain is typically someone that interferes with activities in the play that help to progress
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He is manipulative, wants people dead, and schemes behind peoples back. Iago has gained the trust of Othello over the years and especially in the time span of this play. He is somehow able to not only lie to Othello, deceive him, ruin Othello’s reputation, and manipulate Roderigo, but most impressively everyone until the end thought he was a helpful, trustworthy guy and did not expect him of foul play. As simple as it might be his motive was his hate for Othello. “Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains, Yet, for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign of love,” (Shakespeare), says Iago to the audience in Act I, Scene I. Iago believes that he has been overlooked as a great solider and should have been given a higher title, Cassio’s title. Iago continues to play nice with Othello though, to insure that he is trustworthy and so that he can be closer to him, which in turn makes it easier to do his manipulating. He also dislikes Cassio because he gained the position he wanted so he makes him life hell. Iago makes Cassio’s reputation go down, loss his position, make it look like he is having an affair with Desdemona, and injuries him. He is the typical bad guy out for blood because he feels as if the world has mistreated
He is manipulative, wants people dead, and schemes behind peoples back. Iago has gained the trust of Othello over the years and especially in the time span of this play. He is somehow able to not only lie to Othello, deceive him, ruin Othello’s reputation, and manipulate Roderigo, but most impressively everyone until the end thought he was a helpful, trustworthy guy and did not expect him of foul play. As simple as it might be his motive was his hate for Othello. “Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains, Yet, for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign of love,” (Shakespeare), says Iago to the audience in Act I, Scene I. Iago believes that he has been overlooked as a great solider and should have been given a higher title, Cassio’s title. Iago continues to play nice with Othello though, to insure that he is trustworthy and so that he can be closer to him, which in turn makes it easier to do his manipulating. He also dislikes Cassio because he gained the position he wanted so he makes him life hell. Iago makes Cassio’s reputation go down, loss his position, make it look like he is having an affair with Desdemona, and injuries him. He is the typical bad guy out for blood because he feels as if the world has mistreated