Othello 7

"Oh, villain that I am!" (V.i.29).

     So, that sounds like something Iago would say, right? Surprisingly enough, that line comes from Roderigo in scene V of Shakespeare's Othello. It seems as though we have yet another villain. What?! Two villains in one play? I don't know about that but Roderigo seems to think so. I thought this was a bit of irony because the whole play Iago has been being such a villain (an annoying one, if you ask me) and now all of a sudden Roderigo thinks he's awesome because he killed Cassio. Yes, he killed one person. Iago has messed up the lives of thousands. Ok, not thousands, but at this point it seems like he's messed up the whole town at least a little. Later on, Cassio mentions "villains" as plural. I'm not sure if Shakespeare knew Iago would be the "greatest villain of all time" when he wrote this, but he sure is throwing lots of villains in there while he's at it. Heck, Desdemona is probably the joker.