To illustrate this point, I’ll briefly examine Iago and Othello from Othello; Edmund, Goneril, Regan, and Lear from King Lear; Jachimo and Posthumus from Cymbeline; finally, poor jealous Leontes and opportunist Autolycus from The Winter’s Tale. The common thread between all of these villains is common sense or really, the lack thereof. The first group I discuss, deal with the fools who deserve a little pity, for they have spun their stories by making bad decisions. The next group is devised primarily of cutthroats, (which is made up of most

Posthumus is the luckiest out of all these villains. Again, he wasn’t really the main villain of the play, it looked as if the queen was making all the moves in the beginning, but if he hadn’t have made a bet with Jachimo, Imogen never would have faced those odd situations.

Autolycus was just a thief and an opportunist. I felt he was just put in The Winter’s Tale so that someone would get his or her come-up-ance in the end, since Leontes has been repenting for sixteen years. If he’d have just stayed a cutpurse and not tried to capitalize on the Shepherd and Clown, then he wouldn’t have been in even the slightest bit of trouble. But Autolycus is really the last of the lesser evils. The reason I put him after Othello, is because O was somewhat of a noble person, and Autolycus is just a thief. Now, I’m going to start writing about the really evil people.

Now Iago was just bad. Out of all the villains in the four plays, he was just the rawest. As an audience member, you just felt helpless as this guy orchestrated one of the coldest revenge attempts in Shakespeare. He even got to tell us what he was going to do: “The Moor is of a free and open nature, that thinks men honest that but seem to be so, and will be tenderly be led by th’nose as asses are” (I.3.399-402). What’s worse is that he did it just cause. He thinks that Othello may have slept with his wife, so he decides to just go and destroy a political nation.

Jachimo was just a nasty pervert, with a bit of creepiness on the side. After being bet that he couldn’t get with Imogen, he hit on her pervasively, then when that didn’t work, he actually stole away in her room. He took things and examined her body for noticeable traits, to which he found a mole on her breast. Now that’s creepy! He then brags about it to Posthumus, then later Cymbeline himself. He should have just given up after his initial advances, but again, having no common sense he does the despicable. Although there wasn’t any real pain brought to him, he was just a little shamed. Actually, I thought the play was a little stupid in regards to punishments, but who am I to complain.

He was just a malignant thing. There isn’t any real part to say where he could have stopped and would have been fine. Maybe if he’d have just considered the timing of when he was going to follow through with his plan better, than he might have got away with it. Also, he couldn’t really see how the things he was about to do were really going to play out, so that was a little bit of carelessness on his part. Because he couldn’t r

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