because he cannot stand the thought of her laying with someone else. Othello kills Desdemona. "The marriage might have succeeded had it not been for one of the most hateful characters ever created: Iago" ( Jorgensen 59). After her death Iago's plot is uncovered. Emilia, Iago's wife, starts questioning Othello as to why he has committed this murderous act. He then tells her that Iago told him that Cassio and Desdemona had laid together. "When Iago's schemes are at last exposed, Othello, finding it impossible for a moment to believe that a man could have contrived such evil, stares at Iago's feet and then says sadly, "but that's a fable" (Tragedies 87). Emilia then begins to direct the questioning at her husband, but by this point other people have joined the room. Iago then kills his wife. "So, Othello, once he has learned that it was Iago's malevolence and not the order-destroying and meaning-destroying fact of Desdemona's faithfulness that produced the appearance of Dedsemona's guilt, is enabled to assume again the role of proud warrior" ( 136). Othello stabs Iago and then proceeds to kill himself. All because of one person's lies four people were murdered. Iago's plot was first revealed to us with him telling Roderigo of his hatred for the Moor. He makes the statement "that he follows the Moor only to serve my turn upon him,' and attains its permanent breadth" (Evans 115). The whole play Othello instills in Iago his complete trust. It should not be because "Iago is hidden under the surface of his honesty'." ( Tragedies 86). Iago is the omnipresent manipulator. From the beginning he was plotting a way to destroy Othello. Iago declares his "intention to work the victims' destruction by exploiting their most admirable qualities" (Mehl 65). Iago not a naturalist but instead the fiercest version of reductive fallacy, "which can be defined as the belief that what is most real about any one of us is the worst thing that p...
