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2006-06-13 16:22:39 · 6 answers · asked by Jack 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
Iago is more insidious. He is calculating, but it's almost like he is bored and could just be doing this for entertainment. Yes, he has a motivating source to he revenge, but he seems smart enough to entertain himself some other way. Plus he is in more of a legitimate position of honor to successfully sell his sedition.
Edmund, in his goals, has a legitimate point, why should he be passed over. The social standards that impede him aren't his fault and he shouldn't be limited by their borders. He could have been a heroic rebel and fought against the situation. But he pursues immoral means. He's just strung out from all the rejection, but is not smart enough to see that he can step out of that context of social legitimacy and pursue other avenues.
2006-06-13 17:51:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's deff. Iago... Edmund at least had some reason for being evil... Iago did it just for the spite of Othello... and he did more harm in the long run as well...
2006-06-13 17:06:12 · answer #2 · answered by acts4food21 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to go with Iago.
Not only does he commit betrayal, the most heinous act in Western cultures, but he cannot even explain his evil to himself. In many ways, of course, he is like Othello's "evil twin"; the other side of the Moor.
Evil with a basis, with a psychological reason, we can explain away -- Iago is like Michael Meyers of the Halloween flicks: he is more frightening because we cannot explain him so we cannot help him. And the fear is that we could drop into that pit, ourselves, with the many things we cannot explain about ourselves.
2006-06-13 17:15:47 · answer #3 · answered by blueowlboy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both of them are called Machavellian villains.But I think Iago is more evil.Though a villain,if i remember,Shakespeare has redeemed Edmund at the end of the play.But in Iago, we see no remorse.he is as wicked,as jealous as ever.
2006-06-14 02:11:11 · answer #4 · answered by lucy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would say Iago. he was a straight up back stabber with no redemptive qualities whatsoever. Edmund is evil as well, but Shakespeare leaves him with an explaination for the evil that he commits.
as my drama students would say, "Iago is a hater!"
2006-06-14 18:20:48 · answer #5 · answered by jakiterry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Iago - he is cold, calculating and you could almost say evil.
His spitefullness is unneccesary toward Othello, he is mean and jealous.
2006-06-13 23:38:44 · answer #6 · answered by Krissyinthesun 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋