o grabbed him and began kissing him and confessing his love for Desdemona. Claiming that he was upset that she had married the Moor. Iago went a step further and planted a handkerchief in Cassio’s room, one that Othello had given Desdemona as a gift, and proclaimed that he saw Cassio with such a handkerchief. Othello’s jealousy began to rage as we see his anger and thoughts become impure. This ‘proof’ holds credibility in that Cassio did posses the handkerchief, but knew not of its origin or meaning. But it is truly false since Iago planted it in Cassio’s room to merely look as if it were given to him. Finally Iago takes the final step in turning Othello’s flame of jealousy into a burning pit of hell in his soul. Iago tells Othello that Cassio had told him that he lay with Desdemona, and further more tricked Othello in to overhearing a conversation of Cassio explaining his relations with another woman. We find Othello to be consumed with rage and jealousy, as he sees no other alternative but to have them both murdered. Iago’s final proof is not credible at all since it is a lie, but his trickery has and cleverness has made it seem to Othello that everything Iago has spoken is truth. The ‘proofs’ we have been presented with truly hold no credibility what so ever, but when used by a devilishly clever man as Iago, they appear to be truthful in every sense of the word. I find that credibility can be deceiving, especially when one whom you trust so much is the very one who is deceiving you. I find no credibility in any of Iago’s ‘proofs’ but then again I am the reader and know all, where as if I weren’t I may have been deceived myself, just as tragic Othello was. I find also that Iago may have been credible in one respect, that he knew the grasp that jealousy could have on a mans soul and exposed this in Othello. For at first he began Othello’s...
