Comparing O. J. Simpson And Othello

Many people prefer the book version of a story rather than the film it tries to become. This is due to the fact that the author’s intent of his own story is much more intriguing and familiar to its readers than just another film version. However, some versions portray the story better than others. Hollywood seems to have taken up the responsibility of creating complicated and compelling characters on screen. Unfortunately, doing so can easily take away a story’s rich, necessary detail. For instance, Shakespeare’s Othello has a few different movie versions of his story. Both movies, the 1990 version by Trevor Nunn and the 1995 version by Oliver Parker, are great productions carried by strong casts. However, there are areas in which the movie and the play differ. These differences tend to interpret the film in a different way compared to what Shakespeare intended. The film portrayals of Shakespeare’s Othello by Parker and the other by Nunn both display the character of Desdemona in very different ways. The Nunn version of this play did a much better job of portraying Desdemona as Shakespeare

‘Othello is one of the brilliant plays written by William Shakespeare. It is the story of man named Othello and how his mind was twisted and manipulated by a man named Iago and how Iago made Othello think that his wife Desdemona was cheating on him with his lieutenant Michael Cassio, which results in many deaths. Tim Blake Nelson has creatively restructured ‘Othello’ into a film to appeal to a teenage audience. It still contains the same central ideas which are racism, jealousy and deception which will be analysed on how they are portrayed in ‘Othello’ and are creatively reshaped in ‘O’.

Inside each of us, there is a seed of good and evil since it is a constant struggle for us to

    In the Tragedy of Othello, by William Shakespeare, a great injustice is done to the main character, Othello the Moor. Othello is manipulated by the villain Iago to satiate Iago’s need for control and his desire for revenge. Othello the General has promoted another, Cassio, to hold the position that Iago feels he deserves. For the injustice that Iago feels has been committed against him, he brings about the destruction of Othello and his wife, Desdemona, using Cassio as his tool for doing so.

Dalai Lama once said, “We human beings are social beings. Are lives are influenced by jealousy and malicious behavior for the better or for worse”. The darkness of human nature is directly evident in William Shakespeare’s Othello as opposed to J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Within the play Othello, the darkness of human nature is visible through the theme of jealously and how characters react. The emphasis of inequality in the play Othello presents a darker view of human nature as opposed to J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye through the treatment of the protagonists. The dynamic personality of Othello presents a darker view of human nature as opposed to Holden Caulfield as Othello’s personality changes for the worst.

These two characters show that even if people are polar opposites at the end of the day they can still become alike. Othello is a respectable, fearless, and loved man by many who can draw in anyone just by telling them about his life. Shakespeare showed how much he is adored by having Othello talk about how Desdemona fell in love with him, Othello says, “And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake. She loved me for the dangers I had passed,”(1.3.192-193). He is loved and admired by people but eventually he goes down a dark path and commits murder. On the other hand there is Patrick Bateman who is clearly disliked by most people he knows and is already in a dark place internally. He is not respected and is really ignored by everyone he knows, this is showed when his friend Tim says to his face, “You’re a dufus,”(Ellis 4). He lets everyone treat him however they want which eventually leads him to commit murder just like Othello. Two very different people doing the exact same things, one is an admirable man and the other is an

*INTRO*The character Oedipus in the play Oedipus the King by Sophocles, and the character Othello in the play Othello the Moor of Venice by Shakespeare are both tragic characters. Oedipus ends up killing his father, and marrying and having children with his mother, whereas Othello ends up mistrusting and killing his wife. These two individuals have similarities and differences in several aspects such as the roundness of their characters, the retribution that they incur upon themselves and upon their respective wives whether directly or indirectly, and their horrors.

When Shakespeare composed the tragedy Othello televisions were not. Along with no televisions, life in the late 1500s had many different qualities than it does today. This time period had no war on drugs and no high school shootings. Peer pressure was not an issue. The audiences of Othello in the 1500s did not face the circumstances that we, American high school students, face today. With these significant differences in daily life, come the attempts of movie creators to help prevent our modern day tragedies.

Othello and Iago Comparison Othello and Iago are different in their characters as well as in their colours. It could be said also, however, that they are similar because of their fallibility. Iago is overcome with his desire for revenge to such an extent that he puts it into action. Othello's love and possessiveness of Desdemona take over him until he eventually would rather kill her than allow anyone else to have her. In this way, despite their contrasts, Iago and Othello both represent the extremity of the same thing - human emotion.

How is the theme of suffering portrayed in ‘Othello’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’?

From a visual perspective, the film is captivating, especially the love scene between Othello and Desdemona. To say that this is based on the O.J Simpson trial is perplexing. Although Parker does selectively reduce the dialogue from Shakespeare’s play, all that has been selectively captured and included from the play, is straight out of the play. Although there is no basis between the film and the O.J Simpson trial the commonality between the true is that they both invite the audience to look and think about how conscious we are about the issues of race within society. Unlike 400 years ago, in modern society, it is very much impossible to ignore Iago’s character and not determine that he is in fact a racist. The symbolism used by Parker where Iago delivers his monologue over the chess board, where the chess pieces have been positioned to show a black king opposing a white queen and knight, is used to clearly illustrate Iago’s manipulative character in trying to make Othello question whether Desdemona is even attracted to him because of his colour. Instead, Iago pairs both the white queen and the white knight signifying a more likely choice for Desdemona would be Cassio.

As we read Othello in class Iago reminded me of a character named Lotso from the movie Toy Story 3 that was released in 2010. He reminded me of Lotso because in Toy story 3, he gained the trust of the toys at the daycare as well as Andy’s toys, he then manipulated them, and lastly turned them against one another. In Othello Iago manipulated the characters easily because they knew him as “honest Iago” and never doubted anything he said. He pretended to be everyone’s friend, and he also turned Othello against Desdemona and Cassio by using the fact that Othello was easily angered from jealousy. Iago did all of this because he wanted to punish Othello for not making him the lieutenant and to get rid of Cassio so that he could claim the position of lieutenant. These are the most apparent similarities between the two characters.

As the villain in Shakespeare's play Othello, Iago has two main actions. They are to plot and to deceive. Iago wishes to plot and to deceive because he is jealous of Othello and hates him. Iago's reasons for why he hates Othello is because he believes that Othello made love to his wife, and Iago is mad that Cassio was chosen to be Lieutenant instead of himself. From this hate comes the main conflict of the play.

Othello is one of the Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy which illustrates a tragic downfall of a black protagonist, Othello. Although in the play, Othello is a socially secured man working as a military general, his social status seems to be cancelled out by his colour. In the society of Venice, Othello is referred to as an outsider not only because of his cultural difference but also his colour, Therefore, in the play, Othello is depicted as a victim of racism even though he himself does not seem to acknowledge that he is victimised because of racism.

Controversiality is something that Shakespeare has conquered in all of his plays. Most of these controversial things have to women and the treatment of them. Some of the biggest ones are King Lear, Hamlet, and Othello. These plays show how Shakespeare portrays women. Women are an essential part of everyone’s lives because they are the ones that give birth to the people of this world.