IAGO Flashcards
charles lamb on villains
“we think not so much of the crimes they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity which prompts them to overleap those moral fences”
Dr. Johnson on opinion of iago
“the character of iago is so conducted that he is from the first scene to the last hated and despised”
Honigman on opinion of iago
“iago enjoys another important advantage, that he is the play’s chief humorist”
W.H Auden on iagos humour
“the joker in the pack”
Honigman on iagos power
“he enjoys a godlike sense of power”
Harold Goddard on is his intelligence
shakespeare bestowed “the highest intellectual gifts” on iago
Honigman on love
“he had neither felt nor understood the spiritual impulses that bind ordinary humans together…in a word, love.”
Bradley on portrayal of evil
“evil has nowhere else been portrayed with such mastery as in the character of iago”
Maguire on iagos actions towards women
“serial silencing of women”
Coleridge on iagos evil
“the motive-hunting of motiveless malignity”
Bunten on Iagos morals
“iago has made money his replacement for morality”
