Honest Iago

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"Othello" is one of the most important and popular Shakespeare tragedies. In the play, the playwright highlights the maliciousness of human nature and the way it can destroy some naive souls. This paper discusses how Iago is the villain in this play and is presented as the epitome of deceit and malice. However, this has been done, while keeping the character wrapped in thick clouds of honesty and truthfulness. It explains that this is a strange paradox, as on the surface, we are repeatedly told that Iago is an honest man, and he also considers himself to be so, while beneath all this fake honesty, he is always trying to stab someone in the back.

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"For some odd reason, he hates Othello who thinks of him as an honest friend and his hatred for the protagonist results in an absolute tragedy where numerous lives are destroyed and reputations tarnished. For those who have read the play, it is difficult to understand why Iago would be considered an honest person when he was certainly anything but this. However as negative as his character was, Iago must have some honest streak in his nature or else no one would have believed him and the whole ploy against Othello would have failed."

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