Examine the techniques Iago employs to achieve his aims in the play Othello

In traditional Shakespearean tragedies the protagonist is un through with(p) through their confess fatal flaw. The reckon Othello is different because there is a villain which is unusual for a Shakespearean tragedy. In the crook Macbeth, the tragic events occur because of Macbeths own fatal flaw of ambition. However in the play Othello Iago, one of the main characters manipulates Othellos fatal flaw of greedyly which leads to the tragic destruction of the play.He says how he is using Othello by embodying him I follow solely myself he is pretending to be loyal to Othello but is really doing it for his own benefit. Iago schemes revenge on Othello when he gives Cassio the job of lieutenant or else of to him he describes himself as worth no worse a break through and is baseing that he thinks highly of himself. Even after he manages to bum around Cassio dismissed and replaces him as lieutenant, he still continues to carry out his plan of destruction. This reveals that the rea son of Iagos plans are merely just for fun.Iago deceives everyone even Roderigo who supports him, not subtile everything round Iagos plans, he even questions why he ever do a fool my purse which shows he is only using Roderigo for his own benefit. No-one in the play seems to know what Iago is really similar. He manipulates everyone in the play to gain their trust although he only uses them. Cassio praises Iago by saying that he had sung an excellent song, this is because he doesnt know that it was actually because of Iago that he was dismissed from the job of lieutenant.Iago is seen as a manipulative and evil character, he betrays Othello by telling Brabantio that Desdemona is married to Othello youre robbed an old black ram is tupping your fair ewe, he uses crude, sexual imagery to make their marriage seem worse than it is to make Brabantio angry because his daughter got married without his consent. He constantly makes anti-Semite(a) comments about Othello by referring to him as thick-lips and tries to make him seem like a bad character, because in Shakespearean times it was seen as wrong for a white woman to marry a black man.Iago tries to convince himself that Othello has had an function with is wife I hate the Moor, And it is thought abroad that twixt my sheets Hes done my office. Iago is jealous even though he is not completely sure that Othello has had an bout with his wife. He treats Emilia badly he tells her to be not acknown ont he makes her do what he wants and tell her to pretend she does not know anything about Desdemonas hankey. He also makes general bad comments about women she give you so much of her lips as of her tongue he is saying that Emilia duologue too much, something which she shouldnt do.Iago has a general dislike for women and stabs Emilia when she realises what he has done he also causes Othello to hit Desdemona in public and makes him call her a whore to her face. To make Othello jealous he makes out that Desdemona is havi ng an affair but he only hints, evasiveness this makes Othello jump to conclusions and finish off the sentences himself Lie with her? Lie on her? Iago does not try to correct him With her, on her, what you go away he just agrees with what Othello is saying.Sometimes when talking to Othello he says something and immediately takes it underpin to get Othello curious. Othello gave Desdemona a hankey which had been passed through his family, Iago tells Emilia to steal it for him and plants it in Cassios bedchamber. He tries to wind up Othello by discretely reminding Othello that Desdemona did not have the handkerchief anymore But if I give my wife a handkerchief, he is tormenting him with the thought that Desdemona is not acting truly loyal to Othello, like Emilia would to Iago.Shakespeare uses asides and soliloquies throughout the play as a dramatic technique. objet dart talking to Othello, Iago says O, you are well turned now But Ill define down the pegs that make this music, A s honest as I am it reminds us of Iagos evil nature, and shows how he is planning Othellos destruction. Soliloquies are similar to asides in what they do in the play. They remind us of what Iago is planning and also show us what he thinks about what he has achieved so far.