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Our story begins in the land of love and water, Venice. Desdemona, deeply in love with Othello, decides to run away with him to be his wife without the permission of his father, Brabantio. Othello is a brilliant general in the Venetian army, who has just chosen Cassio to be his lieutenant. This greatly infuriates Iago, another of the military men under Othello's command, who considered himself more worthy than Cassio. Iago, driven by fury and jealousy towards Cassio, decides to devise a plan to kill two birds with one stone. He knows human nature well, and he knows how to play with it. It would not be a stretch to consider Iago the most consummate master of deception in the history of literature. Following a careful plan, he sophisticatedly manipulates Othello, eventually convincing him that...