Iago's Manipulation

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Manipulation, is to take control of a person or situation. It can happen cleverly, or unfairly. Iago is one of the masters of manipulation throughout Othello by influencing, controlling, and taking over others advantages as in Roderigo, Cassio, and Othello. All of the three men were manipulated by Iago in the play, but everyone seen Iago as someone to trust and take advice from because they call him “honest Iago.” All of Iago's manipulations, and lies catch up with him in the end of the play Othello.

“Honest” Iago the manipulator, first starts with scene one with roderigo yelling at Brabantio's window saying that Desdemona is with the moor, of course Brabantio (Desdemona's father) never believed it, but it was true. Roderigo was super jealous that the
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He needs her to die tonight, he even made sure she prayed and confessed all of her sins. Desdemona tries to stop Othello from smothering her with the pillow in bed. What done is done, Othello smothers her to death. Emilia walks to desdemona’s room and seen her dead with Othello next to her. Othello tells what happened and why he did it, and Emilia says she’d never expect desdemona to be cheating. Emilia all clues it together while Lodovico finds all of Iago's notes he gave to Roderigo in his pant pocket. Emilia is shocked and never knew Iago was capable of such a monstrous, mad act of lying, and just to be that evil in general. Iago stabs Emilia and runs off, but is later found and brought back to the room. Emilia dies from when Iago stabs her, and dies on the bed beside Desdemona. Othello attacks Iago, and stabs him in the stomach. Othello kills himself, but before he does, he told everyone to remember him as his real self not the downed bummed othello he was sitting beside the deathbed of emilia and desdemona. Iago was sent to jail to suffer there from his acts. Cassio was now back to

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