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When the character othello was introduced to us he was portrayed as this confident person. He was a great war hero, he was well like by the duke that when a crisis occurred in cyprus Othello was the first person he thought about to go and help defend the country because of how well he knew the battle ground. As we progress more into the book we see Othello confident start to founder because he started letting his insecurity get the best of him . For example ,when Michael Cassio got in trouble for starting the fight with Rodgerio Othello suspends , then Iago persuades Cassio to go to Desdemona and ask her to help beg othello so that Cassio could get his job back. But that doesn't go as it should because when Cassio asked Desdemona for help Iago uses that to his advantage by playing with othello mind. At first othello doesn’t let all the little hints get to him because he says that even
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But after a while we start to see his insecurity get the best of him because Othello starts to think what about me is so special I’m a black,ugly Person and Cassio is this smart, hot , white and rich person why wouldn't she want to be with him. Because Othello started letting his insecurity get the best of him, Iago uses that to his advantage and starts dropping little hints that Cassio and Desdemona might be in a relationship with each other because she was fighting for him to get his job back and he also found Desdemona's handkerchief in Cassio’s room,and he even took it to another level when manipulated Othello into thinking that Cassio and Desdemona slept together by making a fake conversation with Cassio. So he called Cassio and started asking him questions about sleeping with Bianca but Iago twisted the

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