Iago

Leidy Medina
ENC 1102
Mr. Taylor

Iago = Danger outline
Thesis statement: In Shakespeare's play “Othello,The Moor of Venice” Iago is the antagonist whose hate, revenge and amorality feelings ruined innocents' people life.
Hates Othello
A. Othello gave Cassio his position
a. judge by his own justice
b. the start of his revenge
B. Othello and Emilia might have hadaffair
a. not reason to support
b. revenge wife for wife
C. Othello skin color
a. use stereotypes
b. from professional to racism
Revenge – manipulating
A. Roderigo
a. advantage of feelings
b. unreal promises
B. Othello
a. believe the most honest man
b. Othello and Destimona impossible ruse
C. Cassio
a. Believe in Iago'sloyalty
b. Fallow Iago's advice
Amorality
A. Right or wrong
a. takes advantage of people
b. lies without sensibility
c. killed
1. Destimona
2. Roderigo
3. Othello
B. never regrets
a. quote
b. never reaches but make pay
C. not principles
a. shows a good may
b. weaknesses to his advantage

Iago = DangerShakespeare's tragedy play “Othello” teach us very important lessons for our everyday life. One is that there are many people like Iago in this world who only want to mess with others happiness. Iago seems to be charming, friendly, sensitive, caring and sympathetic, but the true is that he is a very bad man. He knows how to be a good person, buy only show it as a surface to hide that hereally is an extremely dangerous murdered and trouble maker. in modern language we would call him a complete psychopath. In modern life we see people like him every day. People that only care about revenge and hate. In Shakespeare's play “Othello,The Moor of Venice” Iago is the antagonist whose hate, revenge and amorality feelings ruined innocents' people life.
Iago hates Othello for three reasonsand those reasons is why he want to destroy Othello's life. The first one is because Othello gave Cassio the position Iago wanted as a lieutenant. He could not resist to just gave up and move on. He wanted justice, so he decide to take justice by his own hands. It is at this point that Iago begins to form his plan to earn what he judge as his, and his proper way to get was by destroyingCassio. The second reason why Iago hates Othello is because he fear that Othello and his wife Emilia have had an affair. Eventhough he has not evidences, he would just consider his wife a whore and Othello a dishonest man. Moreover , this could just make- up a motive so his revenge “wife for wife”(2.1.315), have some type of justify. Iago do not realize that Othello was a very honest man ,therefore there is not a remote possibility that Othello was sleeping with Emilia behind his back. The third reason is because Othello's skin color. He uses racial stereotypes to describe Othello such as “ ass, lusty, devil, monkey, Barbary horse”( Shakespeare 525~634). Iago hates that he has to fallow Othello's orders since he is black . Iago refers to Othello’s "thick-lips" (I.i.66) and to him as "anold black ram" (I.i.88-89). His hatred may have started on a professional level, but in part due to Othello’s heritage. Iago’s contempt quickly deteriorates to racism.

Iago planned his revenge, so that he could have what he wanted and still be the “honest Iago”(5.2.183). His way to accomplished his plan was by manipulating Roderigo, Othello, and Cassio. Iago can be consider a very smartvillain as Bradley explain, "he is an artist. His action is a plot, the intricate plot of a drama, and in the conception and execution of it he experiences the tension and the joy of artistic creation" (Bradley, 1960, p. 230). Iago had the ability to fake being the most honest man. Talking advantage of Roderigo's love feeling for Destimona. Roderigo who complains that he suffers from his unrequited...