Othello

Othello As fast as William Shakespeare could write his plays, there have been people there to criticize and pick apart his work. This is not surprising, when you stop to look at the underlying meanings in Shakespeare’s writing. Shakespeare’s play Othello is no exception for these critical eyes, with its tale of revenge, love, jealousy, and murder. And, as with any story, the play has its villain that causes the main conflict. Iago, Othello’s “trusted” advisor and supposed friend, is that villain in the story of Othello. Iago is the cause of the downfall of the main character, Othello, and it is hard to tell if Iago is motivated by human desires, or simply the embodiment of evil. Iago is not the ideal human being, but looking at his motivations for what he does helps point out that he is simply acting on human feelings. First of all, it is Iago’s own human desires that lead him to do the things he does. At the beginning of the play, Iago is having a conversation with Roderigo, in which Iago says “I know my own price, I am worth no worse a place. iago, othello, human, own, evil, revenge, plan, iago’s, says, play, simply, point, jealousy, emilia, bitterness, wife, weaknesses, villain, very, story, shakespeare’s, roderigo, realizes, purely, people, out, othello’s, nature, murder, motivations, makes, main, made, kills, intentions