t Othello, and his burning hatred for Cassio is the stimulus for all the conflicts in the play. Shakespeare uses many soliloquies throughout the play so that the audience can follow Iago's evil plots. There for, everything Iago does is a dramatic irony because us, as the audiences knows more then the characters. Iago succeeds in fooling all the other characters in the play because of his cunning nature. He takes advantage of their trust and uses his victim's own motivations by manipulating the people he is going to fool. An example of this is Othello. Iago is able to persuade Othello that his wife is having an affair with Cassio to the point where jealousy overtakes Othello and causes him to kill his own wife. Iago is able to do this because he knows Othello's flaws, and how to use them to his advantage. "The Moor is of a free and open nature that thinks men honest that but seems to be so; And will as tenderly be led by th' nose as asses are." As well as dramatic Irony, Shakespeare uses imagery, foreshadowing, and symbolism as techniques to tell the audience what is going to happen. Just after Iago has told us his evil plot through the soliloquy at the end of act one he says "I haven't! It is engend' red! Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light." This is imagery that tells us that Iago has made his plan, and can't wait to pu
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