Do you believe Shakespeare's Othello is guilty of murdering his wife or it was not completely his fault?

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Can you persuade me that Othello was solely responsible for killing his wife (Desdemona) or that he was only partly responsible.

Answer 1

Malevolent malcontent:

   Iago’s treatment of Othello conforms to Bacon’s definition of scientific enquiry as putting Nature to the question.  If a member of the audience were to interrupt the play and ask him:  Ã¢Â€ÂœWhat are you doing?”—could not Iago answer with a boyish giggle:  Ã¢Â€ÂœNothing.  I’m only trying to find out what Othello is really like.”  And we must admit that his experiment is highly successful. By the end of the play he does know the scientific truth about the object to which he has reduced Othello.  That is what makes his parting shot—“What you know, you know”—so terrifying, for by then Othello has become a thing, incapable of knowing anything . . .  

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