... of Othello. Othello's tragic flaw comes out first when the evil antagonist Iago says he will frame as lovers Othello's wife and Cassius, whom Othello has just stripped of lieutenant. In this soliloquy, Iago states that he will try to make Othello jealous and suspect a relationship between his ... him. Iago simply used Othello's tragic flaw of jealousy as a vehicle for destroying his life. Iago planned the downfall of Othello and Cassius, because Othello did not promote Iago, but promoted Cassius. At the end of the first act, Iago says in a soliloquy, "I hate the Moor-, and he plans from t...

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