Iago's Jealous Of Cassio In Othello

Iago gets the power that he wants from misleading and taking advantage of them to further his plans. Usually in books, villains are created for the reader to hate, but Shakespeare has found some way to make Iago a villain worth being liked.

I believe it is marxism because marxism has to do with the hierarchy between all the main characters they all have a certain role. The reason Iago jealous of cassio is the fact that he is othello's right hand man and othello is general of the army of venice and he chose cassio to be his lieutenant and fight by his side.

This created a conflict between Iago and cassio because iago wanted Cassio’s position but he wanted them both to suffer and he planned out to seek revenge on Othello by using his love for Desdemona by planting the handkerchief in the possession of roderigo and saying that Othello's wife was a whore. And
He knew that if he didn’t show any signs of emotions towards her that she would try to find a way to grab his attention and just as he planned she came running to get his attention and at the moment he gave her desdemona’s handkerchief she got what she wanted and so did he.

There was quite a few feminist remarks in this story one of the many is when iago knows that Emilia wants to be with him so he uses her to do things a guy wouldn't be able to do, but since he’s the man in the relationship emilia has to do what he says desdemona and emilia conversate in this same scene before it happens.

On the other hand Iago was a weakling because he always was trying to get over on people and using his way with words to deceive everyone to get what he wants. Like in the story he had Othello hide in a closet while he spoke to Roderigo but from what Othello heard he thought they were talking about desdemona when in reality they were talking about bianca and how she loved Roderigo and after Roderigo left othell came out and he had a seizure caused by