I had stood by him the whole time, even when people resented him just because he didn’t look like we did. But now I wish that Moor should rot in hell.
Anyways let’s stick to the story. I had recently married that HOE Emilia. At first we were in love and I respected her. But after getting to live with her I hated her. She was just another woman to me and she never was any more. Then she got hired as Desdemona’s maid, but really she was no more than a glorified BUTLER!
So after Michael Cassio was chosen to be the next Lieutenant of the Venetian army, I was outraged. So I decided to make a plan that would ruin him and most possibly the one man I admired most, Othello. So I slyly used that idiot Roderigo as a pawn in my ‘big game of chess’. I also made it look like it was Roderigo doing this the whole time. And guess what I had to do to persuade that fool to help me. I said, afterwards the voluptuous Desdemona will fall into your arms. And guess what, that fool ate it all up like a fat kid sitting in front of a huge cake. I swear that man is not even fit to be a court jester let alone a man in Othello’s army.
One of the greatest things I managed to achieve was to make Othello hide whilst I was talking to Cassio about Bianca, but I made it look like we were talking about Othello’s Desdemona. Another great thing that I managed to achieve was getting Cassio in possession of the handkerchief that Othello gave to his dearest as a symbol of their love. And the absolute ultimate thing that I managed to do was to get that arithmetician, Cassio drunk and get him into a fight. But then I had to sacrifice my ‘pawn’, Roderigo. Ah well, he wasn’t worth more than the dust on which he fell after I stabbed him.
The greatest thing about this whole thing, was, that nobody ever suspected “Honest” Iago. They never thought I would have the guts to do something like that, they trusted me a little TOO much. It’s still funny though, how the ignorant fools failed to see what was right in front of their eyes the hole time.
To be honest I didn’t intend for so many people to die in my plan. But who cares, in the end I got what I wanted, even if my closest friend, his wife, my wife and a man who’d helped me the whole way died.
Here comes the gruesome part. After they had found out what I had done they vowed to torture beyond belief. I wasn’t scared one iota, and I took my punishment like a true man, because firstly that’s what I am and secondly, deep down I knew that what I did was wrong even though I got my way in the end. So the torturing proceeded like so. First they put me on a rack and stretched me out, they then quartered me, and whilst I was still alive the drained my guts and hung them in front of my face, and then finally they ended it by beheading me.
So I suppose that’s the end of my story…
