Iago not only causes his victims to harm others; he also uses his manipulative powers to get them to hurt themselves. In his plot, the actions he pushes his victims to perform are what facilitates their own deaths. Cassio, for example, was forced to destroy his reputation through drunkenness, and then led to put himself in the position of being accused of having had an affair with Othello's wife, for which Othello allegedly ordered him to be killed. After his drunken misbehavior, Cassius identifies the self-destructive nature of intoxication: O God, let men put an enemy into their mouths to steal his brains! That we should with joy, pleasure, revelry and applause transform ourselves into beasts! (2.3.309-312)Iago himself functions in a similar way, turning feelings of friendship and love into mistrust and murder. Thus he caused Othello, who was celebrating his wedding with his beloved, to become hateful towards his closest friend and murderous towards the woman he loved so much, culminating in his own suicide. After discovering Iago's plot, Othello faces what he has done: . . . Then you must speak of one who loved not wisely, but also