"Iago, as Harold Goddard finely remarked, is always at war; he is a moral pyromaniac setting fire to all of reality.......In Iago, what was the religion of war, when he worshiped Othello as its god, has now become the game of war, to be played everywhere except upon the battlefield." --Harold Bloom
I think that the phrase "moral pyromaniac" is a great way to describe Iago. He sets things on fire, just to sit back and watch it burn. Fire, by nature, is destructive and will consume just about everything in its path. And the fire, like Iago's evil intentions, will only cease to exist when it can no longer feed off of its suroundings. As long as it has fuel, it will continue to burn. Iago allows the characters in the play to consume themselves and eventually burn themselves out. He is reling on them to create their on fuel for the fire that he merely sparks within them. More often then not the fuel that is needed to keep the fire burning and the devestation spreading is the good virtue that lies within the characters.
At first Iago starts offseeking to implement a specific plan of action. As time progresses, he becomes more and more consumed by his own evil desires. In this way he is very similar to the other characters in the play. Just as the fire burning their realitities is feeding from within them, Iago's own evil nature is continuously drawing him futher and futher into sin and damnation. It becomes very obvious that Iago cannot stop weaving this sinister and tangled web of lies and betrail. He is always trying to take it to the next level. It is as if he is testing his ability and seeking to find out just how evil he can actually be. He figured that everything that he did was simply a means to an end. He was constantly giving twisted justifications for his actions, even though he was fully aware of just how manicacle he was being. It was exciting and auxilerating to him. Driven by his own selfishness, life in his reality became a competion to out-do himself. As long as his surroundings provided him with fuel for his moral blaze, he was determined to see to it that the fire burned.
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