... -spoken, loving, and rational general to an animalistic, malicious monster who uses Iago's bestial vocabulary. While one can consider Iago the sole cause of Othello's downfall, cause can also be found within Othello himself. It is Othello's intrinsic internal flaws of jealousy, naivety, inability to judge character and the inherent vulnerability of love that causes his downfall. "My life upon her faith," in this ... that will play on this intensity. Iago does not initiate Othello's jealousies and Iago needs only to carefully tutor to Othello's own weaknesses and flaws. The symbolic "gree...

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