The play Othello, written by Shakespeare has a contrasting character plot of good and evil. Iago is a male officer that is under the rule of Othello, the Moor. Iago represents evil in all of its glory. He is a demented man with only the selfish goal of furthering himself and ruining others that get in between him and his goals. Every evil must have a countering good and that good in Othello is Desdemona. She never once looses love for her husband, not even during her death from his hands.
             Iago is an officer below Othello. Othello is the leading character that has married the Senator's daughter Desdemona without the permission of her father. The play begins with Iago telling his friend Roderigo about Othello's decision to make Cassio, a noble pretty boy officer who was born and bred for the aristocratic world his lieutenant. Iago is upset and ready to exact his revenge for this slight. Not only does Iago feel wronged, he also does not believe in love of any sort. He is an outsider looking into a world that is controlled by passions and love.
             An example of Iago's inability to believe in love would be his referral of Othello and Desdemona's love as an animal act. He lowers their love to sex as a human function that stems from nature's instincts. In Act One, Scene one Iago refers to both Desdemona and Othello as animals:
             "Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
             Is tupping you white ewe. Arise, arise!"
             Iago is saying this to Brabantio, Desdemona's father. Iago has woken him up in the middle of the night to work his vulnerability for is daughter to benefit Iago's own selfish desire to gain revenge. In the same Scene Iago states:
             "... you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse, you'll have your nephews neigh to you, you'll have coursers for cousins, and gennets for germans."
             These referrals to animals lower both Othel...