Exploring Iago from ‘Othello’ as a Machiavellian villain
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Niccolo Machiavelli's 'The Prince’ proposes that in order to get and maintain power you have to be prepared to be evil.
A Machiavellian villain is scheming and operates in secrecy.
A Machiavellian villain is a 'puppet master’, manipulating and using others as tools.
Iago reveals his commitment to knavery, through his soliloquies.
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