Saturday, February 23, 2019

Othello Speech – Modernisation of Geoffery Sax’s Movie

Othello is a tragedy that examines the darker aspects of human public such and jealousy and r make upge. Othello is unique in the way that it forces us as audience to contemplate what it is to be human. Shakespeare ingeniously challenges the Elizabethan attitudes and value towards the prejudices of locomote and gender while also presenting his contextual theme of chaos versus order.These values transcend the context of both modern and contemporary audiences and it is through the BBC adaption by Geoffrey Sax that modern audiences are able to engage with relevance of these issues. Othello is a story of black and white, or so far more so black versus white. Shakespeare represents this racial battle on an interesting level, as a battle of good versus evil which is always seen in black versus white. It is inside the character and interactions of Othello that, Shakespeare privileges and challenges the idea of the prejudice of racism.It can easily been seen that in Elizabethan times the re would be no-one who would look favourably on a black man yet Shakespeare has placed him in one of the highest positions as the general of the Venetian army in Cyprus. Othello is a man of confidence, noblesse and rank yet he is constantly inferior because of his colour as can be seen through Iago who refers constantly to him as The Moor and even states him of one with the devil When devils will the blackest sins put on( Act 2 Scene 3, Line 341).This is likely to represent the attitudes of a great toilet of people at the time the play was written as even the Queen of England was racist as at one point she express her discontent at the great number of Negars and blackamoors which are crept into the realm. withal it is through Othellos character that Shakespeare is able to challenge the stereotypical political orientation of

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