In the English theater, the figure of the Machiavel is primarily a person who puts his own personal survival and aspirations for power above any traditional ethical restraints. He is a person who believes that the assertion of his individual desires is more important than observing any prescribed ways of dealing with people, and who is prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve his own personal ambitions. He is, thus, a self-interested individualist with no traditional scruples about communal responsibilities and morality and is commonly an inherent source of social disorder.
Examples for the Machiavel include Iago from Othello and Edmund from King Lear.
Brian Dowler
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