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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. …

…Iago being the evil and ugliness of Othello is directly countered by Desdemona’s strength of love and goodness. Throughout the play both characters prove over and over again their loyalty to their opposing worlds. Shakespeare has made Othello’s two character’s stand on either side of an unforgiving wall that cannot be broken or manipulated. This wall being the total belief in love and goodness verse the total lack of belief in both.