Unfortunately, I did not read Othello in high school so I might have not been as familiar with the plot as some of my other classmates. However, after the speaker gave his presentation to the class, I feel that I understand Shakespeare a little better and what is going on in this play. I feel like I am caught up now.

The speaker repeatedly emphasized that Iago was deceptively nice. He was viewed in the beginning of the play as an honest and trustworthy character. This is most obvious when Othello says, "Iago is most honest" (45). His true colors come out in his soliloquoys. In his second soliloquoy, we see how he seeks to manipulate others around him to reach his ends of getting revenge with Othello. "My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress-I'll set her on-myself a while to draw the Moor apart and bring him jump when he may Cassio find soliciting his wife. Aye that's the way" (59)! At first, when I read Act I i felt as though I didn't understand what was going on and I was unfamiliar with the characters. However, now that I am more familiar with the text, I have a better grasp of what is going on.