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This makes the audience confused on why Othello gave the position to Cassio and not Iago.

Othello knows that Iago can fight well in battle as it quotes “And I of whom his eyes had seen the proof at Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds”. At this part the audience start to feel sorry for Iago because it should have been him who got the promotion. That never set a squadron in the field, nor the division of a battle knows more than a sinister-unless the bookish theatrics”. We can show this as he says “I have already chose my officer.” And what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician. However, also in act I scene I, Shakespeare allows the audience to feel some sympathy for Iago because he loses his position of lieutenant to Michael Cassio. We also know that theatre was the best kind of entertainment in the early 1600s. Shakespeare is presenting Iago immediately in a negative light for he contrasts him with the well spoken Roderigo. This may make the audience feel sympathetic for Roderigo because he has been duped by his trusted friend. This shows that Iago can manipulate people very easily he feels he is like a puppeteer been able to have control people.

We can show this for he says “That thou, Iago, who hast my purse as if the strings were thine”. This is because Iago was accepting money from him to try and persuade Desdemona to meet Roderigo. Iago is Shakespeare’s villain and the audience almost immediately become aware of this hence he has been taking money from a character named Roderigo.