Othello

Iago must be pure evil seeing how he damns everyone around him for no other reason than fun. He says it himself that his deceit is "out of sport." He values the whole cast of Othello no more than he values a game designed for self for jealous gloating. In the end he gets nothing, not even the money stolen from Roderigo,but he still shows no remorse or regret. In fact he must take his sport a step further and kill his own wife! A truly remarkable and deplorable character, there is something in Iago' careless villainy we must admire. His plans can't fail because they have no objective, he lies by telling the truth, and he revels in the "Divinity of Hell." His soul must lack all love and honor or else how could he be jealous of something he already had. However one sided Iago's soul may be though, he himself has a definite duality. "I am not that which I am", he is a devil and the right hand man. Iago shows that pure evil has two sides as no other character, except the devil himself, can. So, if hell is the pit set aflame by the devil as it was described during Catholic mass, Iago is some kind of major pyro. If he weren't a pyro how else could he understand how fires look cool and burn hot?