How Lies Led to Cassio's Downfall in Othello by William Shakespeare

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It has been inform from various studies that Americans tell an average of 11 lies a week. Knowing that, it is understandable that a person lies at least almost everyday. Whether it was a white lie or a pro social lie, it is still overall a lie. Sometimes in life you may have come upon, or go through, a lie that has been stacked up other lies. Not knowing the truth, it can create confusion or worse, even death. In Shakespeare's Othello, Cassio's loyalty to Othello was so strong that he didn't even realize lies by another character were going to lead him to being murdered.
Michael Cassio is a young and inexperience soldier, but even so, he was Othello's loyal and honest lieutenant. Because of his high position, he was greatly resented by Iago. Iago had devised an evil plan to take out Cassio of his posititon and hurt Othello at the same time, as he had said that in Act 1, scene 3, line 383, "Cassio's a proper man. Let me see how to get his place and to plumb up my will in double knavery?" He continues to tell his plan in line 386, "After some time, to abuse Othello's ear that he is t...

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