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  • driven by revenge
  • kill everyone around them
  • have 'secret identities' - Hamlet makes everyone think he's crazy, and Iago makes everyone think he's a good guy
  • had lovers whom they hurt and betrayed
  • they both make someone murder someone else (accidentally or on purpose) - Claudius kills Gertrude, Othello kills Desdemona
  • Rationalize personal motives - Iago seems to do whatever it takes to be self-serving, and Hamlet does whatever it takes to get revenge
  • Both show a lack of remorse

Villainy

Villain: Someone whose views of right and wrong are considered abnormal, and who is therefore isolated from society.

Hamlet and Iago

are both Villains!

Hamlet

  • desires revenge even before he sees the ghost: he calls it "MY revenge" (1.5.35)
  • justifies it to himself through his projection of the ghost
  • attempts, and fails, to justify it to the rest of society - his mother sees the ghost as "the very coinage of your brain" (3.4.152).

right: anything that serves his revenge

wrong: anything that doesn't.

HAMLET

Iago

  • more obvious villain: he has already gone through this process
  • he does whatever it takes to get his rank back, and to take down Othello
  • right: anything that gets Iago what he wants
  • wrong: anything that frustrates his plans
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