Sympathy is most commonly defined as a feeling or an expression which allows a person to feel a sense of sorrow for the grief of the other. It is usually a common feeling among human beings. Nevertheless, not all people contain a sense of sympathy, especially for those who are undeserving. One who is able to manipulate and tear down another life shows no sign of sympathy themselves. Consequently, why should one receive what they themselves are not able to provide? In the tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare, Iago, Othello's standard bearer, quickly develops to the audience as a character with false emotions and vicious motives. His sinister qualities allow him to become a Master of Temptation in the play and vigilantly corrupt the minds of those around him. The feeling of sympathy is not felt by the audience as it becomes obvious that Iago in fact lacks some of the most important qualities of humanity: he is manipulative, he does not have a guilty conscience, and he takes the meaning of honesty and turns it into a completely different meaning, all of which allow him to cleverly mold the minds of his victims.
             Iago is a man who Othello trusts substantially. However, those around him are blinded by his fantastic acting skills. Iago is not a man of trust, love, or compassion. He is in fact a man of deceit and manipulation. Iago plans to taint and ruin morally the minds of
             those around him through a campaign of dishonesty and disloyalty. His plan is to eventually gain a position he has waited for a considerably long amount of time: Cassio's.
             Manipulation in Iago's mind is to falsify the intelligence of those around him. Iago uses his words carefully and takes harmless encounters between Desdemona, Othello's wife, and Cassio, Othello's Lieutenant, and turns them around to depict a false love affair. Roderigo, a Venetian gentleman, and friend to Othello, is influenced first. Iago states, "First I mu...