Dialogue and Soliloquy in Understanding Iago

Dialogue and Soliloquy in Understanding Iago

Shakespeare’s Iago is a very sophisticated and unpredictable

character. He is part vice and is a very deceitful and evil character.

We see him as a character who tempts mankind into performing devilish

conducts. This is why he is almost certainly known as inherently evil.

There is a suggestion that Shakespeare’s Iago is a cold-blooded

creature because of motiveless plots, but we are however offered a

number of reasons for his plots and plans. Like many Shakespearean

villains, he is quick to improvise and he carries out his evil

procedures using materials he has at hand.

Iago is known to sharing certain characteristics with Richard III,

though he was more violent, Don John in the comedy Much Ado Nothing

and Claudius in Hamlet.

Shakespare sought to create mere than simply an embodiment of evil,

designed merely as a counterbalance to moral values attributed to

Desdemona.

In Act 1.3.333, as the reader and audience, Shakespear has made very

clear of how Iago and Roderigo differ in personal quailities. The

characters leave, leaving Roderigo and Iago alone, so the Act is

framed by these two characters, and much has transpired since the

original meeting of these two. Roderigo is in fact further away from

Desdemona, but Iago gives him hope, suggesting that affairs may change

in Cyprus. Iago still needs to use Roderigo and he successfully

persuades him away from suicide and back to the role of his instrument

of evil. Rodergio is distraught about the relationship

between Othello and Desemona; his language is simple and clear, “It

cannot be”. This simpilcity of language shows ...

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...rous he is saying that this will be the start of

something truly evil. In Iago's soliloquy, it is obvious that he cares

little about anyone or anything except destroying Othello. Iago also

reveals the reason that he ahs anything to do with Rodrigo and his

future plan to destroy both Cassio and Othello.

Iago's soliloquy is very revealing, and effectively shows that he

isn't honest at all, but a manipulative and vengeful person.

Much has happened in this scene. The pace has accelerated due to the

military developments and Iago’s scheming.

The themes that are involved in this play are as of yet not

established, this being so early in the play and one of the first of

many soliloquies. But what we have seen so far from Iago is merely

just the beginning of the lies and deceit implicit in the remainder of

the play.