Iago is one man of many Shakespearean characters who (to me) complicates the story. He is deceiving and makes it hard to understand how anyone can trust him. He plays everyone to his own benefit, twisting the truth, and making them follow lies which lead to disaster. Iago effortlessly manipulates all those around him to do his bidding by taking advantage of their trust and using his victim's own motivations and weaknesses, to achieve his ends. These complicated lies/stories he tells could be solved if everyone talked with each other and then assumptions would be revealed as the lies they are. What kind of story would that is if Shakespeare had everyone talk out his or her concerns and no one die? Shakespeare takes story lines/plays that should have simple solutions but causes them to have the one person who complicates the whole thing. …show more content…
In this play Shakespeare created something that was probably very risky at this time, but in today's time is seen as okay (“normal”). That is a woman dressing as men and portraying who they are not. Defeating the label that love always leads to a happy ending, in Twelfth Night, (though they do end up in happy ending), it is shown that love can cause a lot of suffering in order to be happy. Defeating the labels that a man should not love another man. Shakespeare sheds light into same sex couples for the time