I play the villian - A comparison of Iago and Uriah Heep

The guidelines of conscience and understanding, already addressed, are fairly even with Iago and Uriah. Both fully understand the consequences of their actions, and neither cares about the destruction of lives, family, or property of others. But the actual methods they use are vastly different, and here is wher

The fifth aspect of malevolence is the effectiveness of the method. Uriah Heep clearly has an extremely effective method because he has reasons and he keeps his plans and lies to himself. He embezzles money while convincing everyone around him, including Mr. Wickfield, that Wickfield himself is losing it through bad business. He then leverages the lack of money in Wickfield's family to try and force Agnes Wickfield to marry him. The fact that Uriah fails in his goal is not nearly as important to the model of evil as the tightness of the plot. Evil is never measured in terms of actual results; an accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy, killing dozens, is far less evil than the hate crime of tying a minority to the bumper of a car - or even the planning of such an event. So it makes sense to rate effectiveness more as a measure of the completeness and layout of the plan, rather than what happens. This gives more "evil credit" to the best thought-out plans, which is how it should be. But of course, Iago's plot is pretty badly slapped together as time goes on, and he is extremely lucky that no one figures it out or questions his honesty before Othello kills Desdemona. In David Copperfield, everyone knows that Uriah is a weird guy with something up his sleeve, and no one trusts him very much, but this doesn't help them toward stopping his plot. Uriah's plan is set up much more effectively, with only the care of a true satanic force, whereas Iago's is slightly slipshod.

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