ged motives through which he shows his ambivalence of nature. During the play, Othello holds Iago to be his close friend and advisor. He believes Iago to be a person, “of exceeding honesty, (who) knows all qualities, with learnd spirit of human dealings”(1029). At the same time, Iago tricks Othello into believing that his own wife is having an affair without any concrete proof. Othello is so caught up in Iago’s lies that he refuses to believe Desdemona when she denies the whole situation. He uses the trust Othello puts in him to turn Othello eventually into a jealous man, looking everywhere.Throughout the play, Iago slowly poisons people’s thoughts, creating ideas in their heads without implicating himself. “And what’s he then that says I play the villain, when this advice is free I give, and honest,” says Iago, the master of deception (1019). In the play Iago manipulates Roderigo, Cassio, and Othello, so he can steal the position he feels he deserves. During the play, characters rarely consider the possibility that Iago could be deceiving them or manipulating them, after all, he is “Honest Iago.” ...
