How Does Iago Show Desdemona In Othello

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Iago gets Cassio intoxicated and organizes a battle in the middle of him and Roderigo. Othello fires Cassio for being drunk rather than doing his employment. Iago then persuades Cassio that he ought to request that Desdemona advise Othello to give him back his job. Once alone, Iago conspires more about how he's going to make Othello believe Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio.

Cassio converses with Desdemona and she consents to attempt to persuade her spouse to give Cassio his job back. As Othello is seen drawing closer, Cassio hurries off, Iago (entering with Othello) takes note of how suspicious it is that Cassio rushed off like that. Once the two men are distant from everyone else, Iago plants the seed of suspicion in Othello which

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