Iago Speech - Othello.

As I sifted through the evidence of this case I have heard stories and that’s what they are people. fiction. Stories with no physical evidence to back them up claiming that Iago had planned to destroy the relationship between Othello and Desdemona even if this was so, which I believe it is not, he did not physically attack either of them and therefore he is innocent. In the case of the Roderigo incident I claim that Iago was defending himself as he was attacked not attacking, if a man cannot defend himself against an attacker then what is he supposed to do stand there and die? It is clearly stated that Roderigo attacked Iago not the other way around and therefore Iago’s first thought was to protect himself as any of us would do in the same position and therefore Iago is also innocent here.

The incident with Emilia I cannot in anyway say that Iago was right in what he did, I on the other hand will give you some valid reasons that explain his outburst. First Emilia clearly turned on her husband, verbally attacking him in public and any man does not expect such an attack. Secondly he has doubts that she had been loyal to him during their  relationship and believes that she had an affair with the moor. Also the loyalty she shows to her mistress Desdemona one above the loyalty she shows to him.

These would all come together at once and he therefore struck out in the heat of the moment something that the French would call a crime of passion.

In Conclusion Iago has really committed little crime, and in the case of Othello, Desdemona and Roderigo none at all. He only attacked Emilia through human emotion it was not pre-meditated and I think that he should not be punished for his crime for emotions make us human think about what u would do in his position.