Who Is Iago's Loyalty In Othello

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Othello
Belonging is feeling included and accepted in a group.
Othello marries Desdemona without her father’s permission. He then is sent by the senate, as part of army business, to Cyprus from Venice. Iago swears that he is going to bring Othello down for “sport and profit”. He uses Roderigo to get Cassio demoted, which he does by having Roderigo anger Cassio into attacking Roderigo. Cassio wants to reinstate his name with $#$#0$#$#. Iago encourages Cassio to achieve this through getting Desdemona to put in a good word for him. Unbeknownst to everyone Iago is convincing Othello that Desdemona is unfaithful to him with Cassio. Othello in his jealous rage, caused by Iago, and under the belief that Cassio is going to die, kills Desdemona. It is
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They aren’t allowed to have children, don’t get hired, are bullied and are found living on the streets.
During a sinister storm, in a gloomy room, another Zero is born. Growing up Zero is treated like much of his kind, he is bullied, abused, refused jobs and living on the street. While struggling he tries to make friends among the Zeroes, but he constantly gets rejected. Then, suddenly, during a heroic effort he saves a Zero getting bashed.
She bandages the wounds he sustained saving her. They form a friendship which soon blossoms into more. Together they go out, to parks and rivers. Throughout their blooming friendship society still rejects them, but that doesn’t matter to them, for what society rejects about them they love about each other.
One day during a date Zero gets dragged away to prison, his girlfriend abandoned, crying. While in prison he creates something of beauty. Whilst in prison a flower gets dropped into his cell. Peering out the gaol window he sees his girlfriend. See gets noticed and while a crowd forms around a miracle

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