Iago is not simply a man of deceitful action he is an artist. Comment

Iago is not simply a man of deceitful action he is an artist. Comment

In a infamous court hearing, a lawyer once asked “If you pay to go and watch unclothed people as art why should one deem it wrong to do the same with ‘pornography’, Isn’t that a form of art?” The lawyer silenced everyone with this question and went on to win the case for a photographer who earned himself a reputation of making normal pornography look like something out of an amateurs box. Artistry has come a long way. From Leonardo to Shakespeare there is certainly one thing that they all possess and that is their eloquent ‘genius’. What each of those geniuses chose to create is another story.

William Shakespeare is known for his profound characters. One such character is Iago who is found in his tragic play, Othello. The outworking of Iagos ‘master plan’ leads to the deaths of his master Othello and his wife Desdemona as well a pawn named Roderigo. This ‘honest Iago’ even goes to the hor...