No matter what someone has achieved in their lifetime, honesty triumphs over all. Being known as someone who is honest is an honor, most of the time. Honesty is a reoccurring theme in many novels and plays. However, in the play, “Othello” by William Shakespeare, honesty works hand in hand with irony. The word itself, “honest” shows up repeatedly throughout the play. The word “honesty” is ironic and works to deconstruct the play and is mostly untruthful when used in the play. It is used to make the reader aware of a character’s true personality, not the personality that the other characters see in the play. The most common usage of the words honest and honesty throughout the play are in regards to Iago. Iago uses his reputation as an honest man, to manipulate the ones around him and watch them suffer. Othello considers him to be “Honest Iago” (I.iii.290). Each character describes him as truthful, trustworthy, honest and full of love. Iago states, “O wretched fool, that lov’st make thine honesty a vice!” (III.iii.385). He says that being honest can be harmful and those who are honest are fools. By saying his, he is referring to himself as a fool. When he says, “I’ll love no friends sith love breeds such offence,” he portrays himself as someone loyal who would never lie to anyone, especially not Othello, someone of a military rank (III.iii). However, this is dramatic irony because the reader knows that Iago is in fact a villain, and becomes frustrated with the ignorance of the characters knowledge of Iago and the frequent use of the word. Every dishonest fact that Iago tries to convince to each character is another lie towards his destructive plan to have Othello kill Desdemona. Honest and honesty are used twenty times in the play in description of Iago. His dominance of honesty deconstructs the word. The reader becomes suspicious of honesty and is unable to trust it