Jad Abumrad

They're supposedly chums, but General Othello has no idea that Iago...

So he plans to destroy Othello.

Now, we don't exactly know why.

There are hints of reasons, like maybe he thinks Othello's sleeping with his wife.

We're not sure.

But the weird thing is that he decides not just to take down Othello, but everybody.

He stirs up hatred between friends, between lovers.

He even schemes against his own wife.

This is just somebody who's performing brain surgery without anesthesia on other people.

He's a master plotter.

And as for why?

Maybe...

Othello was sleeping with Amelia.

But as the play goes on, you begin to think that maybe that's just another lie.

Eventually, Iago convinces Othello that his wife has been disloyal, which she hasn't.

And then Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering her with a pillow.

This is just a tsunami of evil that passes through the play.

And at the very end of the play, when everyone finds out what Iago's done, Fellow asks him, why?

Why did you do this?

And Iago?