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     In the first scene, Othello seems to be very intelligent because he confronts the father of Desdemona without care of the false arguments that Roderigo tells Brabantio. In the discussion about the false kidnapping of Desdemona he did not scream he just talk very quietly and made arguments that favored his side all the time. But his intelligence began to change when Iago made a vengeance plan. When Iago makes Roderigo fight Cassio and ruins the name of Cassio, Othello immediately fired Cassio without investigating the event before mentioned. I think that if he had chosen him to be his lieutenant is was because he was a good man and that he was a man that he can trust so the last thing that he would could do was to investigate the event and not to fired him for the first thing that he did wrong , we are all humans and we all make mistakes. Then Iago continues his vengeance plan, making Othello believe that Desdemona was unfaithful to him, after some little things that Iago made him see, Othello convinced himself that Desdemona was unfaithful to him. If Othello married Desdemona, before he took any action, he should have talked to her to know what was going on and if he was so sure that she was unfaithful, he first needed to have very good proof. If I was in his position, I would have assembled the three of them to know who was lying, then after that, he could make the correct decision. Because in the play he lets Iago wash his head with lies then he was deaf for the explanation of Desdemona or Cassio and blind with fury of the lies that Iago construct for his vengeance plan and obviously he makes the wrong decisions. Finally all the innocents and specially his true love payed for his absurded judgement of justice.