... for wealth and power that she forces her husband to commit murder, and in Othello, Moor of Venice, Iago rips apart the lives of innocent people because of his greed for power and attention. Shakespeare's timeless play, Hamlet, is a prime example of the origin of evil in most Shakespearean plays. The villain in the play, Claudius, is governed by his unspeakable greed for the throne ... Iago's actions, it can be concluded that his actions all stem from the same basic flaw: greed. Because of his self-indulgence Iago conspires to break apart the marriage of Othello and Desdemona because it ...

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... of his heroes, and even more so, his villains. Perhaps the two most infamous villains in all of Shakespearian literature are the characters of Iago in Othello and Claudius in Hamlet. Both major characters in their respective plays, Claudius and Iago are driven by immoral ambitions. However, unlike many "evil villains" in literature, these two characters are far more complex than may be seen at first, and ... . I your commission will forthwith dispatch, And he to England shall along with you. He is clever in the way he presents his evil, through verbal trickery, to the courtiers and every...

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