Any circumstance can be shifted from true reality to an illusion, based on how a single person perceives the situation. Finding out the truth of a situation could be easy, if the person setting up the illusion was not a trustworthy friend. In Shakespeare’s Othello, people seek revenge against one another, all due to the framing for one’s personal gain. Iago, a trusted advisor to Othello, is the master of twisting reality to seem like one big illusion. While it appears that he is helping the Moor all along, he says “I follow him to serve my turn upon him” (1.1.45). While talking to Roderigo, he explains his plan for Othello. He will pretend to help the Moor and be trustworthy to him, until he finds an opportunity to turn on him. He then says
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Iago sends Roderigo to get into a fight with a drunk Cassio. When this ends badly, Iago is questioned as a witness although he was the instigator. Iago immediately seems innocent and shies away from throwing his “friend” under the bus (2.3.144-355). Iago’s purpose of this fight was to get Cassio in trouble, then be able to subtly sell him out to Othello. Cassio is stripped of his Lieutenant duties and Iago turns on the charm with him saying “I’ll tell you what you shall do. Our general’s wife is now the general:...This broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to splinter, and, my fortunes against any lay worth naming, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before” (2.3.333-345). After going against Cassio, Iago’s advice to him is to ask Othello’s wife, Desdemona, to help him get his job back. This all begins to play into Iago’s sneaky game because he will make Othello think other things are happening between his wife and old …show more content…
He proceeds to kill his own wife because he fell into Iago’s game (5.2.105). Othello put all of his trust into Iago, who seemed to be a caring friend, all to find out that was just an illusion of who he really was. This does not stop Iago who initially swore by Janus to being a good person from continuing his games (1.2.38). Swearing by Janus is very ironic for Iago because Janus is a two-faced God. Iago swearing to him implies that he is not two-faced, which we see is not true throughout Othello. Iago tortures Othello to the end of time by never explaining why he turned his entire life into an illusion of the actually reality behind his friend and wife’s actions (5.2.355-356). Iago lives a life of being tortured, but Othello will also live a life in hell because he knows his wife is now dead because of him, but for no reason. None of that would have happened if Iago did not turn an ordinary conversation into an illusion through the words said to Othello. Iago was able to twist Othello’s reality by putting the wrong thoughts in his head when he saw his wife with another man. In life, you believe that the people you trust are always how they seem to be, but that is not the case. There is always another side to someone that you never suspect. People are conniving and will give off the illusion that they are good, but truly are
Iago sends Roderigo to get into a fight with a drunk Cassio. When this ends badly, Iago is questioned as a witness although he was the instigator. Iago immediately seems innocent and shies away from throwing his “friend” under the bus (2.3.144-355). Iago’s purpose of this fight was to get Cassio in trouble, then be able to subtly sell him out to Othello. Cassio is stripped of his Lieutenant duties and Iago turns on the charm with him saying “I’ll tell you what you shall do. Our general’s wife is now the general:...This broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to splinter, and, my fortunes against any lay worth naming, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before” (2.3.333-345). After going against Cassio, Iago’s advice to him is to ask Othello’s wife, Desdemona, to help him get his job back. This all begins to play into Iago’s sneaky game because he will make Othello think other things are happening between his wife and old …show more content…
He proceeds to kill his own wife because he fell into Iago’s game (5.2.105). Othello put all of his trust into Iago, who seemed to be a caring friend, all to find out that was just an illusion of who he really was. This does not stop Iago who initially swore by Janus to being a good person from continuing his games (1.2.38). Swearing by Janus is very ironic for Iago because Janus is a two-faced God. Iago swearing to him implies that he is not two-faced, which we see is not true throughout Othello. Iago tortures Othello to the end of time by never explaining why he turned his entire life into an illusion of the actually reality behind his friend and wife’s actions (5.2.355-356). Iago lives a life of being tortured, but Othello will also live a life in hell because he knows his wife is now dead because of him, but for no reason. None of that would have happened if Iago did not turn an ordinary conversation into an illusion through the words said to Othello. Iago was able to twist Othello’s reality by putting the wrong thoughts in his head when he saw his wife with another man. In life, you believe that the people you trust are always how they seem to be, but that is not the case. There is always another side to someone that you never suspect. People are conniving and will give off the illusion that they are good, but truly are