Iago's Jealousy

Iago’s indignation arises from knowing that someone with no experience received the position. The bitterness is left unchecked and quickly turns into hate. Instead of going to Othello, he whined and pined over it and eventually he says, “...I hate the Moor” (1.3.369). His hatred toward Othello drives him to become deceptive and manipulative. Iago advises Cassio: “confess yourself freely to her; importune her to help you put you in your place again” (2.3.282-284). Although this seems to be sound advice, Iago plans to deceive Othello by leading him to believe that Cassio and Desdemona are in love. In an aside, Iago says, “I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear, / ...So I will turn her virtue into pitch, / And out of her own goodness make the net / That shall enmesh them all” (2.3.316,320-322). Through deception Iago aspires to bring Othello and Cassio to their knees and achieve the position he so desired. With the first step of his plan complete, Iago now has to manipulate Othello into action. In an aside Iago sneers, “O, you are well tuned now! / But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music” (2.1.194-195). Essentially, Iago is going to manipulate Othello in such a way that Othello becomes a puppet acting based on Iago’s wishes. In Iago’s ideal world, he will make Othello love him more and hate Cassio:

Jealousy is someting that can cloud the minds of even the most smartest people.It can friends enemies and blur people's judgment and convince themselves of something that is false .throughout the book anger is a big motivator for the characters.

Iago is an example of a classic narcissistic person who is hungry for power and would do anything to get what he wants. This includes getting Othello to trust him and fall right into his trap. Iago says “One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, a fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife; that never set a squadron in the field, nor the division of a battle knows more than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric, where in the toged consuls can propose as masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise, is all his soldiership” (1.1.20) out of jealousy because Cassio got the lieutenant position instead of Iago, which will lead to Othello’s down fall as soon as Iago begin the lies. Othello has learned to trust Iago and begins to talk with him more and more. Once Cassio is stripped of his lieutenant position after starting a fight Othello give the position to Iago.

Iago is evil and he doesn 't care who he hurts; he enjoys it. Although Iago is evil he does display grit and mindset. Iago persuades Cassio into drinking a lot then has Roderigo provoke him into a fight. When Montano tries to break it up Cassio hurts him. This made Othello intervene and stop the fight. Iago planned the whole thing out but he plays it off like he 's shocked about what happened. Othello ends up firing Cassio. Iago tries to persuade Cassio into thinking that he can get Desdemona to talk Othello into giving him his job back. This is all apart of Iago 's evil plan. After firing Cassio Desdemona tries to stick up for Cassio. To get Othello even more upset Iago tells Othello that it 's lust that makes Desdemona speak up for Cassio. Iago believes it 's an excellent plan to bring down Othello. He says, "So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all" (360-362). Iago plans to use Desdemona as a way to get under Othello 's skin. This shows grit in Iago because he is determined to ruin Othello and anyone in his way. He tries anything he can to achieve this goal. In order to destroy Othello, he must also destroy Roderigo, Emilia, Desdemona, and eventually himself. Iago is a hard character to place under a specific mindset. Reviewing Iago 's actions he shows he has a growth mindset. Having a growth mindset

In act One, scene one we see Iago's conversation with Roderigo about Cassio being promoted ahead of him and how Iago believes that this is because of favourtism. This suggests one of many reasons why Iago plots against Othello. From this conversation we see that Iago is envious of Cassio being promoted ahead of him, and plotting against Othello as a means of seeeeking revenge. “I follow him to serve my turn upon him”. Iago believes that he

Iago is a complex and crucial character in Shakespeare's play. Throughout the play you can witness Iago's two faced nature as he pretends to help the other characters; in reality he is only deceiving them all to benefit his own selfish desires. In Iago's first Soliloquy you get the first implication that he is only using people for his own gain. As he plots his ploy "to get his [Cassio's] place and to plume up my will in double knavery," he demonstrates his apathetic nature towards others because he only uses them as his own marionettes. He exhibits the motif of jealousy since he is jealous of the fact that Cassio obtained the promotion instead of him and is determined to rid him of his promotion.

William Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice is a play of great manipulation and jealousy. Iago is the antagonist character of the play Othello. Iago becomes irate and filled with jealousy when Othello names Michael Cassio as his lieutenant, because Iago believed he should have been the one promoted not Michael Cassio. By manipulating everyone around him, Iago portrays himself as an honest noble man whom can be trusted. Iago being known for the honest man he earns everyone’s trust and therefore learns their weakness for his ultimate plan of destruction. Iago’s greatest skill is disguising his manipulative schemes of destroying and betraying the ones around him with what he leads people to believe as honesty. Iago uses their

Iago is not the same when he is with Othello but Iago’s character totally changes when he is not with Othello. When Iago finds out that Othello appointed Cassio as his lieutenant, Iago is extremely envious and he plots a plan against Othello by deceiving the trust that they both carry. “I’ll put this pestilence into his ear.” (II.iii.334). This refers to Iago plotting to say his lies to Othello which demonstrates Iago being overwhelmed by jealousy. Iago puts all the falsehood into the general’s ear which becomes easier for him to do as Othello puts his full trust on the rival. Iago is a harsh and a coldblooded man that wants revenge through his master by plotting an atrocious plan and putting all falsehood into his ear just to obtain the higher position.

Iago plans to ruin Othello because of Iago's jealousy towards him is by carrying out a plan to get back at Othello based on lies and deceit. This plan will make Iago the only person that Othello believes he can trust, and Iago will use this trust to manipulate Othello. Iago plans to remove Cassio from

Othello, Iago seeks to receive his rightful place as Othello’s second in command as lieutenant by destroying Cassio to climb the ranks instead of directly targeting Othello, but the methods Iago shows within the play show that Iago does fit the role of an archetypal villain, and is simply a fool blinded by jealousy. It is without question that Iago hates Othello as it is stated in the play multiple times in the play, but Othello is not Iago’s main target, Othello is merely a roadblock in Iago’s plan. Iago is mischievous as heart, and some believe he is a mastermind in creating devious plans to ruin

In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, Iago demonstrates a mastery of manipulation over people who had previously trusted and confided in him. His sudden turn from Othello’s loyal ensign to rage-filled villain seems indicative of a man who can no longer accept his position in life. Iago’s plotting of Othello’s demise starts as idle talk of a disgruntled 28 year-old career military man passed over for promotion. Iago believes that such a promotion may never come after Othello rejects his candidacy and makes it clear that he did not believe him suitable. He sees Othello is only concerned with personal and political gain with his choice of Cassio as lieutenant. When Iago teams with love-scorned and desperate Roderigo, he begins

In the play, Othello, Iago is a master of manipulation and is a notorious liar. Throughout the duration of this tragedy, he spends all of his time enacting a plan of revenge against all those that he thinks have wronged him. Throughout his master plan, he makes it so that no one knows what he is planning and he is able to get everyone to go against the other. From the very beginning, he shows how manipulative and conniving his is through his plan against Othello, Cassio, Roderigo, and Emilia.

Stanley Edgar Hyman argues that Iago’s true motive for his extreme plan to bring about Othello and Cassio’s downfalls is actually his feelings for them. Since Iago is repressing his love for the two men, it turns into hatred through a defensive process called “reaction formation.” Ever since the beginning of the play, Iago insults Cassio and repudiates the idea of even liking Othello as a person. Also, he often degrades women and despises marriage and love, which is all heterosexual in the play. This is clearly shown by the way he uses symbolism with animals to describe a man and woman making love, which he uses in reference to Othello and Desdemona multiple times.

Shakespeare's Othello is the most famous play of his. A play about love gone bad. It can take you into another world. A world filled with jealously and anger. This unfounded jealously begins with a man named "honest Iago" and a wealthy man named Roderigo.

In Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, good is often confronted by evil, in which almost every case is in the form of jealousy. Iago, the plays antagonist, is a very manipulative villain. Iago uses his own agony and distress brought upon him by his envy of others, to provoke the same agony within the characters in the play. Jealousy’s ability are shown to influence people to new ends and make all humanistic judgment disappear leaving that man a monster torn apart by envy. Jealousy’s true destructive wrath and the pure evil it brings out in people can be revealed through Iago’s actions throughout the tragedy Othello.