It stuck out to me how jealous and hateful the characters Iago and Roderigo were of Othello. Roderigo is jealous because he wants Othello's wife. And Iago hates him for assigning a postion he thought deserved to go to him, to someone else. They hate him so much they go to rat him out to his new wife's, Desdemona, father, Barbantio. They talk badly of him and tell her father she has run off and married an animal, and that he would have animals as grandkids. It amazes me that they would have that much hate out of pure jealousy to talk down about him and try to say he put a spell on Desdemona because there is no way she would naturally fall in love with him.
I think it's funny when the truth comes out. Barbantio, Iago and Roderigo all think Othello put a spell on Desdemona. But when Desdemona speaks up and tells everyone that she really did fall in love with Othello on her own, that is all pushed aside. Everyone can finally see that they are both truly in love. Roderigo is so jealous of this he wants to kill himself by the end of the act until Iago convinces him otherwise.
Iago convinces Roderigo to, instead of killing himself, to go and take Desdemona to Cyprus and try to woe her along the way. I think the only reason he suggests this is it's a way for him to inderectly get back at Othello. I think Iago doesn't neccessarily want to hate Othello, he just wants to become second in command. And if he were to become that, he would befriend Othello.
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