Iago speaks of the fact that there is a rumour that Othello had slept with his wife, but he does so to try to convince himself that there is a reason for revenge (Now I do loe her too... but partly led to diet my revenge). Iago's selfishness can really be seen when he says, "For I do suspect the lusty Moor... the thought... gnaws my inwards", where he says that the thought of Othello taking his wife and not giving him the promotion to lieutenant hurts him inside. Iago's racist and vengeful attitude towards Othello continues to be shown in the soliloquy. Iago uses the word Moor to reference Othello, and he refuses to call him by
“I am not what I am”(1.1.68). Shakespeare incorporates this quote so early in his play, Othello, to show that Iago is a purely malicious and selfish character who will do whatever it takes to get what he wants. While Iago appears to be merely just a dishonest person at first, he proves himself to be one of the most horrible villains in literature that takes absolute pleasure in crumbling the lives of others with no sense of empathy whatsoever. Shakespeare is able to develop Iago's maliciousness and complete lack of emotion throughout the play by using direct and indirect characterization as well as other literary devices. Shakespeare at first characterizes Iago as jealous and devious.
When inquiring how he could do this Don John describes what he wants as ‘the death of this marriage’ and in reply Borachio, his accomplice, says they will ‘misuse the Prince’, ‘vex Claudio’, ‘undo Hero’ and ‘kill Leonato.’ Although their words are not literal and they’re not really going to ‘kill’ Leonato, using words such as ‘death’ give very negative connotations and make the character sound like the villain he is. When Don Pedro plots to trick Benedick and Beatrice to fall in love with each other he tells Hero that ‘I will teach you how to humour your cousin that she fall in love with Benedick’. Don Pedro uses the word ‘humour’ and in doing so makes his deceptions sound more light-hearted and harmless.
He tells firther into this speech tht his revenge will be to make Othello so jealous that reasonable judgement willl not act as a cure. Jealousy continues to guide Iago’s action for the rest of the play. The protagonist of the show, Othello suffers from jealousy. It guides his actions and dooms his fate. Iago successfully plants seeds of jealousy in Othello’s head which results in the audience
Hamlet in his first soliloquy demonstrates his disgust that his mother has allied herself in love and in politics with her late husband’s brother, so soon after his death, “frailty, thy name is woman... to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets”. Claudius is clearly established as the villain in Hamlet, murdering his own brother and then plotting to kill Hamlet. He lies and is deceitful toying with the notion that the appearance of things is not their reality. The audience is privy to the ‘reality’ of Claudius ‘deed’, and of his guilt, through an aside, climactically stating, “then is my deed to my most painted word. O heavy burden!”.
Upon Malvolio’s entrance in Act II Scene V, Sir Toby states “here’s an overweening rogue!” (Act 2, scene 5, line 27) after plotting with Fabian and Maria to punish Malvolio, referring to him as a “little villain” (Act 2, scene 5, line 12). Upon his entrance in the scene, Malvolio states his ambitions for nobility, “To be Count Malvolio!’ (Act 2, scene 5, line 32) to the group. The disdain the other characters have for Malvolio throughout the play is only met with vanity, hubris and patronizing comments on Malvolio’s part, doing very little to conjure any remorse for the character following his downfall later in the play. Malvolio opposes the fun and festivities of the “Twelfth Night” and chastises the characters in the play several times for their celebrations. Malvolio questions their actions in the form of patronizing dialogue by asking “My masters,
The Impetuousness of Romeo The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare presents the moral and social shaping of Romeo’s personality. Through the text Romeo continuously makes illogical decisions that all lead to his death. Romeo’s down fall is a result of irrational and impulsive behaviour he displayed throughout the text. This is conveyed when Romeo consumed in anger killed Tybalt, when Romeo fought with Paris without knowing who he was fighting and when Romeo killed himself not realizing Juliet was still alive. This is some of the proof in the text of Romeo’s impulsiveness.
“I follow him to serve my turn upon him.” (Iago, Act 1 Scene 1). This quote shows how we learn that Othello is already disliked by one main character within the play. At the end of the scene, we learn that Othello has secretly married Desdemona. In Act 1 scene 2, after we learn that Othello has secretly married Desdemona – Brabantio’s daughter, we see a side Othello that we don’t expect to see so early on in the play. He is quite sneaky about his marriage to Desdemona and then when he is searched for, and confronted by the Brabantio and then the Duke, Othello shows how big-headed and egotistic he is.
This soldier has a large flaw, his wrath. Throughout the play, Othello proves himself to be an angry man, often jumping to conclusions, greatly affecting his relationship with his love, Desdemona. This flaw also proves to be fatal to him in the end of the play. After some provocation and insinuations from Iago, and a comment from Desdemona that was took out of context. Othello believes that Desdemona has been unfaithful and he slaps her.
When Othello named his new lieutenant to be Cassio, Iago got angry and immediately plans to avenge himself by destroying Othello and Cassio together. He makes Othello believe that he likes him and that he is his most trustworthy friend, however we the audience know that Iago hates Othello. This is clearly shown in act one scene three when Iago says, "I hate the moor… I follow him to serve my turn upon him”. At first Iago plans to wreck Cassio’s life so that Othello feels frustrated and ashamed with him. Iago first plans to get Cassio drunk while he was on guard duty, so that he starts a fight with Rodrigo while he is drunk and that would get him in trouble with Othello.