... gardener' of his own destiny that he would like to believe himself to be. However, the imagery used by Iago is predominantly abstract and devilish, with words such as plague', monstrous' and Divinity of hell' permeating his speech, suggesting a more one-dimensional villain who is used as a "dramatic mechanism- to ... help advance the progression of the play. This external image of Iago as a Vice figure is cemented within his first two sentences, which use the words abhor' and despise' to immediately create an association between Iago and this idea. This factor, along with the frequent s...

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