Honesty In Othello

Throughout the entire play of Shakespeare's “Othello”, the character Iago manipulates many of the other characters by appearing a certain way then hiding the truth of what he really thinks about the characters. The characters, such as Othello, believe that Iago, his (ensign???) is very honest and will never tell a lie, they even refer to him as “honest Iago” (add the act and the scene to this) because they have great faith in his character. Little does shakespeare’s characters know, but Iago has no honor and is playing them while acting two faced throughout the play.
Iago’s first example of being two-faced is at the beginning of the play. Iago and Roderigo are having a discussion about Othello and Iago admits to Roderigo that he really does (add quote of Iago saying he hates Othello and the Act/Scene it’s from). Iago then works with
Othello’s lieutenant, Cassio is put on guard duty for the night of the celebration that Othello comes to Cyprus and is made the new governor. During the celebration Iago notices that Cassio is on guard duty and devises a plan to get Cassio fired from his position as lieutenant. Iago starts a conversation with Cassio asking him why he isn’t celebrating the marriage of his captain by drinking. Cassio makes the mistake of telling Iago that he (isn’t a good drinker and can’t hold his liquor very well). Iago uses Cassio’s weakness to alcohol against him and convinces Cassio to drink saying that (only one won’t hurt anything and that he needs to celebrate). Once Cassio is very drunk Montano arrives and Iago tells him that (Cassio is a problem drinker and that there is nothing to do to try and stop him from drinking). Iago one second acts as though he is Cassio’s friend by convincing him to drink because of the celebration but once Cassio leaves he acts completely different towards him and tells Montano and lie that he easily