Iago

Iago Iago is a Machiavellian villain. He is the master of manipulation and deception. Iago pretends to be your friend, and gains your trust which he will use to make you blind to the fact that he is the actual cause to your problems. In the first two scenes we already see Iago’s ‘two faces.’ The first side of him is shown when he is with Roderigo, and he is giving him orders. The second is when he portrays himself as very ‘loyal’ when talking to Othello warning him about Brabantio. Iago is…

connected with one of, if not the most notorious villain in all of Shakespeare’s plays. Iago stops at nothing to complete his voracious desire to attain revenge. He takes advantage of innocent people by smiling in their face, yet stabbing them in the back with his scheming manuevers. In his own words Iago states, “I am not what I am”, which demonstrates self-acknowledgment of his masquerade (Bevington, 2014, 1.1.67). Iago is an abusive, sexist, and racist rogue full of jealousy and rage.…

William Shakespeare's character Iago can be described as the perfect villain plotter in the world. Backstabbing,manipulating, and double facing are techniques that help Iago plan his murders. He is most likely the evilest villain because his motives for killing don’t reach a particular goal. You see throughout the play the audience is not sure why Iago wants to crush Othello and his love ones. At first Iago wants to destroy Othello because Othello gave the promotion to Cassio.Iago wanted…

true intentions being shown. A prime example of this is the multi – leveled Iago; he interacts with the characters as if he were a perfectly modeled friend, in whom he is completely honest, and will stand behind his companions through the thick and thin of life’s struggles. Although in his head he holds much darker thoughts. These thoughts are completely uncalculated and lead into his deceitful actions, which in turn make Iago a lethal character. Due to his multi-leveled personality he can be…

Iago: Literatures First Sociopath In literature, Shakespeare was a man of both firsts and pushing boundaries. He brought light to themes such as young love, death, politics, jealously, and a plethora of many other topics still relevant to this day. All of Shakespeare’s works have been the subject of copious amounts of analysis. Despite him having some of the most iconic characters in literature even now, one of the most discussed and analyzed would be Iago from his classic, Othello. Thesis: In…

Shakespeare’s villains, Iago and the Macbeths, share murderous thoughts and actions, while manipulating others, however they carry out their final plans differently. Despite both being villainous characters created by the same writer, they are very different people in the stories, but carry some of the same characteristics from each other, as well as having the same jobs in the separate stories. One of the things that the Macbeths and Iago have in common is their murderous thoughts about the…

In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago persuades Othello that Desdemona has been unfaithful to him. Iago represents evil: he manipulates others such as Othello by using lies to convince him to take revenge on Desdemona, the woman he is going to marry, by jealously. Iago demonstrates malicious behavior, strong hatred for woman , and he is very crafty at manipulating people with the power of language through his obsession with revenge. In the play , Iago puts the seed of jealously, hatred, and suspicion…

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING IAGO AND DESDEMONA IN THE PLAY “OTHELLO” In all of Shakespearean plays, Iago and Desdemona can be said to demonstrate the two most distinctive personalities. Iago as a character portrayed in Othello is seen to be in constant pursuit for malevolent ends while Desdemona who is portrayed as being the opposite of Iago is of a good reputation known for her honesty and aims for no harm to anyone. Throughout the play, Shakespeare manifests the inconsistencies in both of these…

does the relationship take a turn for the worse, but trust is manipulated and broken throughout the play. Othello and Iago both end up killing their wives and then end up dying themselves. The two relationships were so different in the beginning but turned out to be not so different at the end . Othello and Desdemona are in love in the beginning. Othello and Desdemona elope; Iago who is Emilia's husband gets upset and tells Desdemona’s father about the elopement . When Othello finds out he…

Shakespeare plays, Othello is a tragedy which portrays Iago as a two faced character. Playing a very complex character, Iago shows many different personalities. In act one Iago is presented as a funny manipulative and jealous character. Iago is introduced as a jealous man after he discovers that Cassio was promoted lieutenant instead of him. This is one of the reasons why Iago despises Othello resulting in his desire to ruin Othello's life. Iago manipulates Roderigo, who is in love with…