What I thought about as I read Othello, was that Iago just might have the right idea about how and why people tic. Maybe the fact that he had to meddle and not just understand makes him “a moral pyromaniac”, but I think that the rest of the characters were the ones living in an alternate reality. The reality even today is that in every aspect of human life, there is something to be exploited and someone willing to do it. In the case of Iago, he didn’t “set fire to all of reality,” just to the false one in which the rest of the characters lived.
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"In the case of Iago, he didn’t “set fire to all of reality,” just to the false one in which the rest of the characters lived." wait -- which reality are we talking about, the one he created or the one they lived in before he burned it up?
The one they lived in before he burned it up. The one filled with flowery words and ideas that everything is dandy. The view I stated is pretty pessimistic, and i'm not sure I agree with it, but I think it is an interesting point, that probably holds some kind of truth in it. Really, i just wanted to disagree with the prompt, because everyone else bought into it.
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