swayed back into Iago’s plan, and all he wants is Iago’s word, which is absolutely worthless. “I’ll sell…sport and profit” (I, iii, 373-377): Roderigo has received enough strength from his friend’s words to equal the value of his land. But at the same time, he has given up all of his land to Iago. Because of this, Iago admits for the first time his true intentions for keeping Roderigo as a friend. He knows he controls Roderigo, and openly states he is using him for his own profit. At this moment, the friendship that had been seen throughout the play crumbles, and poor Roderigo is last to know.It is sad, because this idea of a false friendship appears commonly in everyone’s life. Whether in war, in politics, or simple high school kids, the weak suffer, and the strong get their desired indulgences by stomping all over their apparent friends. In literature, the false friendship is merely a takeoff of mistaken identity, where the weaker man mistakes a stronger person as a friend, when he is far from it. Roderigo only wants to have love, not the love Iago talks about, but true love. He is a moral man, and that is why he is broken by Iago. Why must the immoral be the ones who rise above?...
