Iago, the Perfect Character The play "Othello" begins on a street in Venice, in the midst of an argument between Roderigo and Iago. Roderigo has been paying Iago to help him court Desdemona, but Roderigo has just learned that Desdemona has married Othello, a general whom Iago begrudgingly serves as an ensign. Iago says he hates Othello, who recently passed him over for the position of lieutenant in favor of the inexperienced soldier Michael Cassio. Perhaps the most interesting and exotic character in the tragic play "Othello," by William Shakespeare, is Iago. Through some carefully thought-out...

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