“Any consideration of ‘The Tragedy of Othello’ must be primarily occupied not with its official hero but with its villain. I cannot think of any other play in which only one character performs the personal actions – all the deeds are Iago’s – and all the others without exception only exhibit behaviour….Nor can I think of any other play in which the villain is so completely triumphant; everything Iago sets out to do, he accomplishes (among his goals, I include his self-destruction).”
--W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden is a poet who believes that Iago is the main driving force for the propagation of events in the play. Auden states that Iago is the “never-seen-before” villain in plays, who is so triumphant in succeeding in accomplishing his goals.
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