Appearance verses reality. This topic is shown to its full potential in William Shakespeare's "Othello" for it shows you the difference and the reality of the people's true personality, so we can easily look at what kind of person Iago really is. Is Iago a person can trust? From the very first page you can tell what kind of person Iago is. He is furious about Othello who passed a position to another person, Cassio, …showed first 75 words of 343 total…

…showed last 75 words of 343 total…excellent way of showing how Iago uses Othello but Iago also goes against Othello in act 1, scene 2, page 2, line 64 Iago draws his sword against Othello who a while ago he was being faithful to. The quotes have proven that Iago is not faithful, trustworthy etc so in appearance Iago is trustworthy but in reality he is a jealous, arrogant person who tries to get what ever he wants, no matter who is in his way.