Shakespeares Othello - There Would be No Othello Without Iago Essay

There would be No Othello without Iago     Though the name of the play written by William Shakespeare is called Othello, the character Othello is not the important character, that rather Iago is. Iago is the character who drives the play, he is the adept who makes things happen. Without his greed and hated, there would be no play at all. The whole play is centered most Iagos avenge and in doing so, he is willing to make other peoples lives miserable. Through Othello, Iago uses the other characters to avenge the wrong doings which Othello has inflicted upon him, and will go to any performer to do so.            The play starts out with Iago not attaining the position he wanted from Othello, but rather the position was given to Cassio, who in Iagos mind is unqualified for the job. This is where Iago starts to whirl his web of destruction. Iago hates Othello with a passion, and in his heart he truly believes that Othello has sl ept with his wife Emilia. I hate the Moor, and it is abroad that twixt my sheets has done my office Othello. Act I. iii. 429-431. Being move aside for the lieutenant position made him even more mad. He thus decided on a plan and took full action upon it to ill-treatment Othellos ear that he (Cassio) is too familiar with his (Othellos) wife Othello. Act I. iii. 438-439.            Roderigo was Iagos puppet. He believed everything that Iago told him and always did as he said, which in the end got him killed. Through the play one wonders often why Roderigo keeps following Iagos demands, and it was because he truly loved Desdemona. He was willing to kill himself if he couldnt energise her i... ...sp    Every person that came in trace with Iago ended up dead or wounded in some way. Iago manipulated everyone he knew for his own means. In the end he got everything he wanted. He got revenge on Othello and ended up killing three peopl e and seriously wounding one person in the process. One of the people who died was his own wife, but he could have cared less about that as long as he succeeded. If Iago was not around and did not carry with him the animosity, hatred, greed, and selfishness, none of those inimical things would have happened, but then, there wouldnt be a play either. Bad characters are needed in plays and in life. If we always got what we wanted and bad things never happened, then life would be very boring. Iago tormented and played around with Othellos mind, and he enjoyed this immensely, it was his goal and he achieved it.