Othello Feature Article

William Shakespeares play Othello is one of his four most expectant tragedies. This play is widely known as existence one of the most moving and most painful with the f alone of proud, dignified man, the murder of a graceful, love woman, and the unreasoning hatred of a motiveless villain. Othello is an esteemed general respected and honoured for his position disdain the fact he is a moor. After promoting the Florentine Cassio, his fri completion Iago despises Othellos decision as he believes it shouldve been him who deserved it.Othello later elopes with Desdemona, which was looked down upon due to Othello being a black man. This is where Iago, the protagonist, begins his malicious plan to dumbfound down Othello. Using Rodrigo, who loves Desdemona, to do his dirty work for him. This play was written in 1604 new versions cave in been made into film with late day altercations, for example, O, directed by Tim Blake Nelson. Each of these show similarities and differences. more of the themes shown in Shakespeares original play Othello use the same themes. and The image O shows a great deal of parallels to the book.Director Tim Blake Nelson stayed true to Shakespeares original cast, plot, and sequence of events, but he set his movie in modern times. It takes place in a primarily white high school where Odin, playing the part of Othello, is a basketball star who leads his team to many victories. His right-hand-man, Michel (playing Cassio) is al bureaus there for him, helping in any way he can. Hugo plays the part of Iago. He shows a lot of jealousy towards Odin and Desi (playing Desdemona) being in a kind as well as all of Odins skills.The characters that create this play show one theme all throughout this play, Deception and Illusion vs. Reality. RACISM Iago says many social functions that show his racism clear as daylight. Iago refers to Othello as thick-lips and sooty-bosom, also he calls him an assortment of puppets including an old black ram, and a Bar bary horse. Iago speaks to Desdemonas father, Brabantio. He refers to Desdemona and Othellos children being part animal because Iago is comparing Othellos sexuality to that of a horse. Youll shake off your daughter covered with a Barbary horse, youll have your nephews neigh to you, youll have coursers for cousins, and gennets for germans (Shakespeare, 32). McEachern describes Venice as being proto-liberal, even with that view in mind she describes Iagos racism as being super-subtle (140). sagacious is the word of choice because gradually, all of the main characters become Iagos dupes without knowing it. Iagos racist hatred for blacks gives him a penury for wanting to destroy Othellos happiness and also gives him a way to do it.Iago only needs to coax Othello that Desdemona hates him because of his color. Iago, in a way, must rationalize and naturalize his own fictions as truths in order to trace Othello to believe him. He cannot succeed in causing Othellos jealousy unless he be lieves them, to some degree, himself. The most unsettling thing rough Iago is his unblushing separation of being from seeming (McEachern, 195). Although the reader never finds out what happens to Iago at the end of the play, it is assumed that he gets executed for his treason and lies.All of the energy he used trying to fight Othello, ultimately caused his own destruction. Jealousy is destructive weather it is internal, like Iagos racism, or external like Iagos sly hints to Othello about Desdemonas unfaithfulness. O . JEALOUSY There are many things that Hugo does that show his jealousy towards Odin. He shows shock and warning signal when the coach of the team (who is also Hugos father) said that he loves Odin like his own son. Hugo also takes steroids and other drugs to continue his performance up hoping to surpass Odins skills.He tells Rodger, (who plays the part of Rodrigo) Im considered a utility man. I rebound, I can shoot, I play guard, forward, power forward, you name th e position, I fuckin play it. The point is, Im the MVP on this piece of hit team (O, scene 2). This shows jealousy of Odin because he was selected as MVP of the basketball team. Hugo actually admits that he is jealous, but he sees it as a flaw as opposed to Iago in the play. Hugo talks to Odin forrader a dunking contest in the gym and says that Odin should forget about Desi.He tells him that he has everything and that he would give his breeding to be in Odins shoes and says that Desi is not a prize that he needs to win, but earlier that Odin is the prize (O, scene 13). There is one place at the very end of the movie that Hugo directly admits to his jealousy. He is talking about a hawk and how it relates to power, darkness, determination, and to being proud. He says, Odin is a hawk, he soars above us. He can fly. But one of these days everyones gonna pay attention to me. Because Im gonna fly as well as (O, scene 21).