Othello- Character

"I have never met a florentine more kind and honest" III, i, 39

The protagonist in this play is Othello, because he is the character to which all of the events in the story center around, or are in some way related to. He is the one who brought on such a wrath form Iago, by allegedly sleeping with Iago's wife. Iago is obviously the antagonist because of his evil plot to ruin Othello and Cassio. He is the one who make everything go wrong. If it were not for Iago, Desdemona and Othello could have had a happy relatively uneventful life. Since Iago plot to ruin the lives of many of the characters in this story, is incensere and insensitive, he is the clear foil of Cassio, who is kind and genuin. He is so innocent that he still does not know that he is being set up be Cassio, after he has been a pawn in a intricate chess game since before Iago got him drunk. He never questioned other peoples involvement because of the shame he puts on himself for slipping up. Iago appears to have not shame he switches from "honest" to cured in a spit second, with not so much as a second guess.