Malorie’s answer to “Can you a come up with a deleted scene from your favorite Shakespeare play?” > Likes and Comments
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Gorgeously vivid and brutal prose, worthy of the Bard himself, beautifully mingled with a modern directness. Well done!
Reading your scene makes me think about how different Iago is from Macbeth and how they are both so different from Richard lll, yet all three are certainly villainous and evil. As you say, Iago doesn't seem to feel remorse or feel the need to explain himself. Macbeth goes back and forth, feels remorse, then lets his ambition and Lady Macbeth push him in the opposite direction, and Richard lll, well, from his first monologue he describes to the audience why he is evil and what he plans to do:
...since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous..."
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Gorgeously vivid and brutal prose, worthy of the Bard himself, beautifully mingled with a modern directness. Well done!
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Reading your scene makes me think about how different Iago is from Macbeth and how they are both so different from Richard lll, yet all three are certainly villainous and evil. As you say, Iago doesn't seem to feel remorse or feel the need to explain himself. Macbeth goes back and forth, feels remorse, then lets his ambition and Lady Macbeth push him in the opposite direction, and Richard lll, well, from his first monologue he describes to the audience why he is evil and what he plans to do: ...since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous..."



