“The play is concerned with the imputation of sinning; of sin itself there is absolutely nothing. The famous screen scene is one of circumstantial evidence only not at all of guilt… Joseph Surface a villain with being demonstrably a rake.” (Louis Kronenberger, “Restoration and Eighteenth-century comedy”: The School for Scandal, 1973, 553)
Mr. Kronenberger states simply that Joseph is the villain in the play. Joseph is not a truthful and trustworthy man. Throughout the play, he is always trying to steal the loves from who are close to him. Joseph is also a hypocritical y
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