Iago VS. Othello

Whether to blame Othello or blame Iago, that is the question. In one of Shakespeare's most well known tragedy's, one of the main characters, Iago is portrayed to be main reason for the protagonist's downfall. However, one must acknowledge the protagonist himself, Othello, for being at fault due to being so incredibly gullible. In this tragic play Othello, Iago whom is driven by vengeance plots against him in the intention to bring him to his downfall. Evidently it worked you know, I mean it's Shakespeare AND its a tragedy so you know everyone just dies. Nonetheless, even though Iago fed Othello an abundance of lies and put up a façade as if he was innocent, killed his "friend", and stabbed Othello's bestfriend, he is not all at fault. Othello in fact is the reason as to why all these events took place. Let's be honest, no one can be that gullible to blindly confine and believe in a person that you've recently gotten to know without consulting the person you've known to be

honest and LOVE for clarification. It is literally beyond me that not once he didn't go around to ask anyone other than Iago to discover the truth for himself. But, of course not, because I am convinced that Shakespeare likes to play with your emotions. As I was saying, Othello more than likely would have prevented suicide and homicide if he had decided to be even slightly more intuitive. Ultimately Othello allowed Iago to pick up and carry Othello to his own turmoil due to the simple fact that he could have avoided it by finding and getting legitimate  confirmation of all Iago's allegations.