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Shakespeare’s writing tends to have an antagonist who is power hungry. In the play “Othello” the bad guy, Iago, uses his perceptiveness to pick up on Othello’s doubts towards Desdemona’s faithfulness in order to destroy their relationship. Iago is able to use his people skills to get close to Othello and then use this gained trust in order to devastate him. In the beginning of the play we quickly discover that Iago only has bad intentions towards Othello, seeing that he tried to demolish their marriage. Since his original idea hadn’t worked Iago was working out an immense scheme to break down Othello. Iago is bent on crippling his brave commander for one reason alone, revenge. He always felt as if Othello wasn’t worthy of the respect that he had from everyone around him. Iago was jealous of Othello’s high position in society, and found that he was not worthy of Desdemona’s heart. So Iago was going to do whatever it took to ruin Othello’s reputation. After ac