Comparing Scar from The Lion King And Iago from Othello

To truly understand Iago and Scar we must first understand what evil really means. Scar from the Disney’s The Lion King And Iago from Shakespeare’s Othello both have very interesting stories where we can see why and how they are the bad guys. Scar and Iago both demonstrates the true definition of evil throughout both of their stories. I’ve always been taught that the bad guy always looses. This is certainly not true and especially in Othello, which is why Iago is described as being pure evil.

Scar was cunning, manipulative, and seemed to be sort of a narcissistic lion. However even with his evil and deceiving ways he was still a coward and would rather run than fight, although if cornered Scar was able to hold his own as seen in his tussle with Simba. Scar is full of nothing but hate and disgust for his brother and nephew and everybody against him. He does not care much about the hyenas and seemed to of viewed them more as tools and weapons to use for his own benefit, this ultimately ended in his death when he tried to blame his plan on them. Scar was intolerant of failure, making the hyenas feel bad for failing to kill simba and angrily throwing them out after they made the mistake of talking about his brother, Mufasa, of whom Scar was extremely jealous. Scar was certainly one very smart lion; manipulating conversations and situations to his own advantage was a piece of cake. Scar also proved to be very sadistic, convincing his nephew, Simba, that it was his fault for his fathers death, and later going on to taunt him that in fact, he Scar, was responsible for Mufasa's death. Scar is very similar to Claudius from the Shakespearean play Hamlet; they are both the uncles of the main character, they both k...

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...ng. Iago did morally wrong things throughout all of Othello. He lied more than anything and was manipulative and also very deceiving. We see multiple examples of this. Iago cause quite a few people pain, injury and harm. He made Othello believe Desdemona was cheating on him which caused Othello great pain. Iago indicated future misfortune from the beginning of Othello. Ruining everyone’s life was always apart of Iago’s plan. Now if the death of five people was, we may never know. Iago fits the definition of evil almost perfectly. Iago is pure evil.

One thing I have certainly learned from Shakespeare’s play, Othello is that the good guys do not always win. As much as we wanted Desdemona and Othello to just live happily ever after…they did not. I think that is what makes this story so beautiful. It shows that happily ever after really does not always exist.