Adelman raises the question about what Iago’s true intentions were with Desdemona’s love life. She states that Iago becomes enraged with Othello because he feels that Othello has something that he lacks in personality. Criticism of Iago shows that he tries to use Othello’s black race to turn him into “blackness” and make him evil. Adelman demonstrates Iago’s reasoning for his plan when she states her thoughts on why Iago is angry. “Othello is everywhere associated with the kind of interior solidity and wholeness that stands as a reproach to Iago's interior emptiness and fragmentation” (Adelman 127). Race critics and Iago critics agree that Iago wanted to alienate Othello to believe that Desdemona was having an affair. However, Iago critics
