ying to get on the audience's good side with the speech and justify what he says to Cassio as good. Such manipulation makes the play lean towards being Iago's because he makes the audience think what he wants them to think.
             This speech also allows us to get a real sense of Iago's character. Maybe he is just trying to save his own skin, but the fact that he tries to reason with the audience and supports his arguments with facts points more to the idea that he truly believes his actions are not evil. Othello never gives speeches trying convince the audience of anything. Iago's speeches to the audience manipulate us in his favor. This gives him domain over the play because he controls us.
             When Iago opens up to the audience to explain his plot, he allows the audience into his head. These speeches also allow Iago to explain how his plans developed in the past scene. Such actions allow the audience to get an inside track on what is going to happen in the play because Iago foreshadows what happens later in the play during these speeches. Iago opens up his head for us when in Act Two, scene one he states, "He takes her by the palm...Would they were clyster pipes for your sake.&q
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