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At the beginning of the play Roderigo is planning on telling Desdemona’s father that she ran off and married Othello, who is a Moor, thus causing Desdemona’s father to strongly disapprove of the marriage. He’s going to tell Desdemona’s father this because Othello over looked him when choosing a new lieutenant and instead choose Cassio.
Then Iago gets Cassio drunk and into a fight with Roderigo so that Cassio will be stripped from his rank. Thus Iago gets the revenge on Cassio that he’s so deeply wanted. He then tries to get Othello to believe that his wife, Desdemona, is unfaithful. He also goes as far as to suggest that Cassio is the other lover. He then plants Desdemona’s handkerchief in Cassio’s room to back his lie up. Then the handkerchief is giving to Bianca, Cassio’s mistress, who then show’s Othello. He then believes that Iago told the truth and that Desdemona was unfaithful.
Iago then talks Roderigo into killing Cassio, but this attempt fails and both are wounded. After Othello hears this he thinks Cassio has been killed so he returns home to kill Desdemona, meanwhile Iago kills Roderigo and sends news to Desdemona, by way of his wife Emilia, that Cassio and Roderigo are both dead
When Othello gets home to find Desdemona sleeping he kisses her, wakes her up, then accuses her one more time of being unfaithful. She protests that she didn’t cheat and he kills her by smothering her. When Emilia enters to deliver the news Desdemona, in her last breath, says that Othello is innocent. Others then enter the room and Emilia defends Desdemona innocence and Othello then realizes that Iago caused all of this. He then tries to kill Iago, but Iago turns and kills Emilia and then runs away. Othello then comments suicide, and Iago is later found and taken away.
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