“On reading the play the one realizes the fact that though everyone has a need to trust a person believing in the truth of the other, sometimes what is being presented is not in good faith. To be able to sift through the falsehoods to realize the truth is not something that everyone is able to do. Deception can be very attractive since at times it meets the expectations or the values that the subconscious mind is promoting. Adopting to the presented falsehoods then becomes easy as we can see in the faith of Othello and the treachery of Iago. In such light we realize that though Iago was evil and the tragedy that befell Othello was created by the former, it was Othello himself who allowed himself to be misled and it is his naive and jealous personality that Iago took advantage of.
“Iago is characteristically cunning and his hatred and envy of Othello causes him to become bitter so that he devises a way to cause the downfall of the ‘great’ Othello. Othello never even suspects that Iago could be guilty of such treachery and therein lies his fault—for he is willing to take the word of a stranger over the word of a wife that he allegedly loves.”