"A certain Michele Cassio, Florentine, a fellow almost damned for a beautiful wife, who never put a squadron into the field, nor the division of a battle knows it, more than a spinster, unless the bookish theory, where on the whole the consuls can propose as masterfully as he: simple chatter, without practice. It is all his military ability he, sir, has had the election; and I, of which his eyes had seen the proof in Rhodes, in Cyprus, and in other Christian and pagan places, was to be insulted and calmed by the debtor and the creditor. This counter-speaker, in due course, will have to to be his lieutenant” Iago, (1.1.21-34). Clearly jealous of Othello's choice to entrust Cassio with the military work for which Iago felt best suited of Iago is seen and shown through his own actions. These actions, however, resemble the characteristics of a psychopath. Managing to adapt to the main psychopathic traits, including lack of empathy, pathological lying, deception and manipulation, ease and superficiality