Iago's most sinister method to carrying out his plot is his ability to turn the character's most admirable aspects and turn them against themselves. In the final act of the play, Iago's plan causes Othello to finally carry out revenge against two people who started out as his closest acquaintances. Since Othello is convinced that his wife has been unfaithful with him by sleeping with Cassio that he and Iago decide to collaborate and kill them both: "Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted" (V.i). Desdemona, who is respected for her virtue and purity, has been made out by Iago to be an adulteress who betrayed her new husband. Cassio is well liked for his charm and charisma which makes him all the more likely to be capable of seducing Othello's wife. Instead of the expected emphasis of unpleasant characteristics, Iago has eliminated what made characters likeable, giving them no redeeming qualities in the eyes of Othello. This strategy proves Iago to be a prime example of evil in the play.
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