Examples Of True Villains In Othello

True Villains

A true villain is a person the hurts others for little or no reason. It may not seem like this, but Iago, in William Shakespeare’s Othello, is a true villain because he has no reason to hurt most of the people he does in the book. Iago only has a reason to hurt Othello, everyone else is just pawns. Shakespeare uses Iago’s villainous nature to perpetuation the theme of the the work, jealousy. Iago uses his manipulative nature to convince Roderigo to unknowingly help him in his plan. Even though Roderigo has done nothing to Iago, Iago feels ok with using him. Iago uses Roderigo because Iago knows Roderigo has been “turned almost the wrong side out (by love).” Iago’s manipulative nature allows him to take advantage of this. And

Iago knows if he creates a connection between Desdemona and Cassio, that he can convince Othello that it is something more than what it looks like. So Iago manipulated Desdemona’s kindness, so she can try to get Cassio’s job back. Little does she know that she is just perplexing Othello’s theory that she is cheating on him, as Iago said. Iago decided that having Desdemona killed for Othello’s actions wasn’t great enough, but he wanted her to help him push Othello to killing her. This is something only a true villain could do, someone without any moral

Iago knows Othello won’t be as easy to manipulate as Roderigo because Othello is “one not easily jealous, but being wrought perplex’d in the extreme.” Iago knows he’s going to have to work a lot harder to manipulate Othello, but his villainy lets him hurt anyone who stands between him, and Othello’s downfall. And even though Iago has no grief with Desdemona, she is the one who Iago want dead. Iago believes death would be to good for Othello, so he needs to see everything he cared about be destroyed. And slowly but surely he does. Iago shakes the grounds of Othello’s marriage. Othello goes from a loving, trusting husband, to a man blinded by jealousy determined to kill his wife. But Iago never destroys the love Othello and Desdemona once shared. Iago has Othello convinced that the only way to save their marriage is to continue it in the afterlife. If Othello doesn’t kill her, “she’ll betray more men.” And when Othello find out that Iago has set everything up, he finds himself most angry at himself. He knows this was caused by Iago, but he killed Desdemona. And his final speech shows that he “threw a pearl away” because he could not see through Iago’s scheme. He leaves the fate of Iago in someone else's hands and kills himself. Iago brought Othello down to his lowest point and let him kill himself