Character Of Iago In Othello

Shakespearian plays, often noted for their great complexity, are fascinating in the way characters are portrayed. The play Othello, written by William Shakespeare can be interpreted by its characters and their actions. In this play, the character of Iago is the antagonist seeing that he often performs evil feats and is continually manipulative. This character is portrayed as sly and has no motive to back up his menacing actions, resulting in the ultimate demise of all the main characters. The character of Iago in the play is often manipulative and sly in order to seek his revenge against Othello, but does so in a grotesque and unethical manner leading Othello on his own parallel path. In the play it is evident that Othello

Iago is a very complex character seeing that many of his actions are unreasonable as he often attacks others maliciously. Iago shows the characteristics that make up a good person, such as amiable, sensitive, bright, kind, and sympathetic. This evil character, along with other evil characters that Shakespeare has included in his work, are many times purely evil for no reason. This type of character would basically be considered a psychopath due to his insensible acts. The only possible reason for Iago’s hatred of Othello could be the fact that he has suspicions that Emilia is sleeping with Othello. This would create a parallelism between these two characters as the only way for him to get his revenge is to make Othello feel the way he does. Thus resulting in the death of his wife seeing that the way Othello responds to incidents is with violence. Iago, often being known as the most evil character out of all the Shakespearian plays seeing that “even when his evil deeds are out in the open, Iago never repents” (Ormann 1). The character of Iago targets Othello, Desdemona and Cassio in order to ruin their happy lives. He sees them as a target because he is simply jealous of the relationships they have seeing that he and Emilia represent more of a parasitic relationship more than anything else. It is easy to note that Iago preys on the innocent and feeds them lies to which the faulted character believes to be