Othello 10

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to do
If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trace
For his quick hunting, stand the putting on
I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip
Abuse him to the Moor in the right garb.
(Shakespeare, II, i, 302-06)

These are but a few of the ways that Iago manages to keep the audience involved in the plot of his diabolical scheme.
Iago is also a very deceitful character. He will always tell the characters one of two things: exactly what they want to hear or the exact opposite, in order to make it easier for them to succumb to his constraint. Othello, for instance, is told that his wife has been unfaithful, which Iago knows will make him insane. Desdemona, on the other hand, is told not to worry about her husband, that it is simply "work" matters and that when it passes, all shall be well. An example of such can be found in the play Othello when we read "I pray you be content. ‘Tis but his humor./The business of the state does him offense./"
(Shakespeare, IV, ii, ...

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