Iago As A True Villain In Shakespeare's Othello

Although disliked, a villain plays an important position in any story. In the Play Othello by William Shakespeare, the character, Iago, is shown to have that unfavorable side. His characteristics portray how cunning, manipulative, and disrespectful is true nature is. As a person dives into the play, the manor her treats Othello along with the other characters bring fourth his personality. Iago betrays Othello, makes a fellow lenient drunk to cause disruption, twist Othello’s mind, and kill many innocent people. These accts open the eyes of the audience and shows them what a true villain is really like. When the play begins, it sets up a scene with Iago and Rodrigo. Iago assures his counterpart that he despises the Moor, also known as Othello. He proceeded to tell Rodrigo as well as Brabantio, Desdemona’s father, that …show more content…
When things began to crumble apart after both Rodrigo and Desdemona, Emilia had come to the answer that it was her husband has cause the mess when she allowed him to take the handkerchief. She spilled out her confession, and without hesitation, Iago stabbed his own wife, causing her death. There was no remorse shown from Iago about anyone that died that night. The lack of caring for others is a strong trait in many villains. If one merely does not care for anyone, then they do not have any trouble murdering innocent people. Lastly, in many stories between good and evil, the villain is always captured towards the end of the story. Iago shows to exception as he is captured by Gratiano and Lodovico. Othello shows his anger towards him by wounding him, but he doesn’t want Iago to die. Death would be an escape from all the wrongs he had committed. Iago doesn’t say a word after Othello proceeds to take his own life as well. Four lives are taken due to his diabolical plot and not once has he shown remorse for what he has