his wife in a very unpleasant way. He viewed her as a fool despite how much effort she put into pleasing him. His hatred for women is evident when he finally killed his wife, Emilia. He had accused her of having an affair with Othello, and this could have spurred up his awful treatment of women. Lago was very disloyal, and he pretends to be helping many characters in the play while in real sense he was just doing it to satisfy his purposes as well as his pride. He plotted Cassio’s downfall and then went ahead to comfort him by advising him to seek solace from Desdemona. He pretends to be helping Othello when he tried to convince him to go into hiding knowing very well that this would make Othello look guilty.

Lago is responsible for the unrest and lack of peace. However, he manages to make him believe that he owes Lago for his loyalty. Lago used Roderigo to attack Cassio (Shakespeare, Raffel and Bloom). This was despite all the misery and suffering he had caused for him. Lago elated from the suffering he caused to people. He enjoyed using people’s plusses against them. This is seen even when he used Cassio’s good look and politeness to destroy his reputation as well as Othello’s marriage. Desdemona was a kind hearted girl whom no one would ever think of hurting. However, Lago was excited by the feeling of destroying others. Lago was a sadist with no sense of pain whatsoever. When Othello wanted to kill Desdemona, Lago suggested on the way Othello should kill her. He never got tired of making other suffer he

tormented Othello endlessly. The feeling of killing made him satisfied. He wanted Roderigo and Cassio dead, and he ultimately killed Roderigo with no hesitation. People who considered Lago as a friend ended up as his victims. He always had a way of double crossing them. One of the people that suffered this trick was Roderigo.

Despite helping him in his endeavours to bring Cassio down, he ended up killing him. He used him in his dirty tricks. However, Roderigo was aware of what Lago was capable of and as such wrote letters that would finally discredit Lago. Despite the fact that Lago used other people’s insecurity as a tool for their downfall, he also had his insecurities. One of it is seen when he accuses Emilia of having an affair which he used to bring Othello down. Another insecurity is when he fought for the post of lieutenant. This shows that he needed that post so as he could satisfy his personal gain and be comfortable (Shakespeare, Raffel and Bloom). Lago had enough reasons to wanting to destroy Othello which were out of anger and jealous. However, his actions were mostly driven by the love for evil. He used his anger and jealousy as excuses to carry out his evil plan.

As much as he wanted the position of a lieutenant, he was not justified to expose all the people he made suffer to such things. This depicts that he was not driven by the greed for power only. Even if he were promoted to a lieutenant as he wanted, he would still have looked for other reasons to justify his evil deeds. He lacked consciousness, affection

and pity as seen when he made even the innocent go through hell in his hands. He never saw the goodness in people and viewed everyone as his enemy and a subject of his malicious acts (Sadowski 5-13).

References

1. Sadowski, Piotr. "Once A Villain Always A Villain: Edmund’S Reformation In King Lear, 5.3.241-42".SAH 1.1 (2015): 5-13. Web.
2. Shakespeare, William, Burton Raffel, and Harold Bloom. Othello. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Print.