Othello has one major character flaw: his jealousy and gullibility which causes him to consistently fall for Iago’s lies. It is the prime emotion that Iago had suggested to him in Act 3 of the play and serves as the major driving factor that slowly begins to consume Othello. Iago believes that he is knowledgeable on the subject, having practically engraved in his wife's head that jealousy is a normal characteristic of men; however, it is fairly dim compared to the storm he’d spurred in Othello’s head. It is through Iago that Shakespeare is able to collectively make him like an unsolvable puzzle, he claims he’s a honest and faithful man yet collectively places deliberate lies in order to expose and control other people. Specifically, Iago uses a form of cruelty that is not physical, but instead attacks the mentality of men like the plague to a body. Throughout Shakespeare's Othello, Iago is depicted as a man blood-thirsty for power that would attempt and do anything in order to bring down Othello. His temptation is powerful, and he allows his obsessions to …show more content…
He constantly gets angry at Othello for multiple things. An example of this is when Othello looked past Iago in favor of the lieutenant position; however, what really begins his spiral into utter chaos is when he states at the end of act one that Othello slept with his wife, Emilia. His first act of cruelty begins when he claims that he’d begin lusting after Desdemona, Othello’s wife, for no other reason than to get even with him. This idea of unfaithfulness is rooted in Othello’s head, which makes Iago a mastermind at isolating characters to the point they drown in their own obsessions. Othello is already separated from everyone else by his skin color and build alone, but this isolation Iago was able to create between him and his own wife ultimately leaves Othello consumed by his own madness and later killing his