Othello 5

Othello really gives new light to the concept to trickery in Act IV. I was dumbfounded by how easily Iago was able to manipulate both Roderick and Othello into doing and thinking just as he pleased. I also found his interaction with Cassio to be pure genius and show true signs of a excellent villain. He warped, not only Cassio into "talking" about sleeping with Desdemona, but also Othello into really truly thinking just that. By having Othello hide around the way so that Cassio thinks that he is only speaking with Iago, it pushes the notion that Cassio is speaking privately and freely about his relationship with Desdemona. Thee trance of Bianca only fuels the rage and disgust felt by Othello at the idea that the man cheating with his wife isn't even only getting with his wife. He's also getting with a trumpets too. This only adds to the case against Cassio in Othello's books. Iago showed his brilliant side in line 160 when he egged on Othello's belief with, "Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?"(IV,i,160).