1. Explain your Interpretation of Lago's Character and Role
... himself of the justifications for his manipulation of the people around him. This image is augmented by the fact that he appears to modulate between various motives each time he explains them; at the beginning he claims to Roderigo that he is acting out of revenge for a lack of military recognition, to serve my turn upon [Othello]', which presents his view of the army simply as a power structure, a ... instead attempting to conceal his deeper anxieties. Although Iago is used primarily by Shakespeare as the force of evil and malignity, so that the moral worth of the other characters can ...
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