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Iago's Motivation

Iago's Motivation


Iago is a "moral pyromaniac." Harold C. Goddard writes that Iago
consciously and unconsciously seeks to destroy the lives of others, especially
others with high moral standards (Goddard 76). However, Iago is more than just
a "moral pyromaniac," he is a moral pyromaniac whose fire is fueled by pure
hatred. He is a hungry powermonger whose appetite for destruction can only be
satisfied after he has chewed up and spat out the lives of others. Iago lusts
for power, but his sense of power is attained by manipulating and annihilating
others in a cruel and unusual way. Iago prepares and ignites his victims and
then watches, with an excitable evil in his eye, as his human pyres go up in
flames.
Iago undeniably has an unquenchable thirst for power and domination.
Critics such as M. R. Ridley believe that the ability to hurt is the most
convincing display of one's power (Ridley lxi). Iago has a deep, inbred desire
to cause and view intolerable suffering.......


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