Roderigo critics

• activates poisonous impulses in Iago - Honigmann
• He is a pathetic figure ... trying to swim in a sea much too rough for him - Ridley
• His main dramatic function seems to be what little comic relief there is in the play - Ridley
• He goes to the devil with his eyes open, yet blindly - Barker
• iagos deception of roderigo is based upon the mans willingness believe that Desdemona is sexually corruptible - Kermode
• his moral sense is as feeble and obscure as his mind is muddled - Barker