"Othello" is one of the four great tragedies written during Shakespeare's period of despair when the bard seemed to be concerned with the struggle of good over
evil. The
paper shows that Iago, the villain in "Othello", is perhaps the most sadistic and consummately evil
character in all English literature and his eventual downfall illustrates the triumph of love over hate, a key theme in many of Shakespeare's plays. The paper traces the play
act by act in order to analyze the character of Iago.