One such critic, Samuel Taylor Coleridge aptly describes Othello's Iago as being a villain of "motive-less Malignity". In other words, Iago's only reason for destroying the lives of the characters in the play is that he is an evil person. ... As the play progresses on, Iago seems to be losing sight of what his original motive was and is solely intent on destroying the lives of the characters around him. ...

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