Blog #3 - He's a maniac!

Iago shifted from a religion to a game the moment he started plotting an evil scheme against Othello. The reason it became a game was because rather than it being set up so that "the best man wins," Iago turned it into a battle between who played the game the best. When Iago used his wit and cleverness to outsmart everyone around him, the game began. And Iago used almost everybody in the story as a game piece. He tricked them in such a canniving way that he lead everyone to do exactly what he wanted them to. Almost as if he was the one playing the game and moving all the pieces around as he pleased. I think the moral pyromaniac part comes in when he did things such as use the littlest remarks and comments to spark a flame underneath these other characters, or as he saw it; just other pieces of the game. When he did such things, such as leading Othello to believe Desdemonda cheated on him, then that flame moved and shifted all of the game pieces around, just like Iago wanted. But the thing is, Iago didn't actually have to ever move the pieces around himself, he just had to spark that flame because he truly understood how to play this game.