pretends to be -- and what are his motives?

In Shakespeare's, Othello, the reader is presented the classic

battle between the deceitful forces of evil and the innocence of good.

It are these forces of evil that ultimately lead to the breakdown of

Othello, a noble venetian moor, well-known by the people of Venice as

a honourable soldier and a worthy leader. Othello's breakdown results

in the muder of his wife Desdemona. Desdemona is representative of

the good in nature. Good can be defined as forgiving, honest,

innocent and unsuspecting. The evil contained within Othello is by no

means magical or mythical yet is represented by the character Iago.

Iago is cunning, untrustworthy, selfish, and plotting. He uses these

traits to his advantage by slowly planning his own triumph while

watching the demise of others. It is this that is Iago's motivation.

The ultimate defeat of good by the wrath of evil. Not only is it in

his own nature of evil that he suceeds but also in the weaknesses of

the other characters. Iago uses the weaknesses of Othello,

specifically jealousy and his devotion to things as they se

lieutenant. With Cassio no longer in the position of lieutenant, this

Iago's scheme to control Othello. As Emilia becomes suspicious about

that Venice represents good or specfically Desdemona and that Cyprus

Scene III, is very important because it is the point in the play where

to take eveything he sees and everything he is told at face value

loyal to his superiors. The fact that Othello himself views Iago as

Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it

works upon one of the tragic flaws of Othello. Othello has a tendency

leaves, and Iago witfully trys to make it look like Cassio left

undoing of Iago. After revealing Iago's plot to Othello, Iago kills

herself and not Othello. Iago's wife, Emilia, becomes the ultimate

ironically, is that he trusted his wife Emilia and found that she was

goal. In this way, he can maintain his supposed unknowingness about

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Approximate Word count = 1716
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)