Explain how Iago manipulates the other characters in the play Othello.

Title: Explain how Iago manipulates the other characters in the play Othello.
Category: Literature / European Literature | Words: 1791 | Pages: 7.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

Explain how Iago manipulates the other characters in the play Othello.

Iago is not only an ingenious villain but also a manipulator with the utmost skill. Iago creates hatred and jealousy in Othello, tricks Cassio and makes a fool of Roderigo. He holds everyone that is important in his plans in the palm of his hand and he does with them as he so wishes. But how is this? How is one man able to manipulate so many and create so much hatred and jealousy that …showed first 75 words of 1791 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1791 total…the guilt and sorrow he is putting Othello through. This is because Iago's hatred for Othello is so great that he looses all sense of right and wrong that is why he is able to commit himself fully to all the bad things he does. Iago manipulates Othello because of jealousy; Othello kills Desdemona because of jealousy and in my opinion acting on jealousy is one of the worst sin a man can ever commit.

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