BIOL1008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Brabantio, Oxymoron, Chisel
Document Summary
Parker"s filmic interpretation of othello attributes power to the appearance and identity. While a large proportion of shakespeare"s poetics have been left out, parker maintains the vast majority of the play"s timeless themes placing particular emphasis on the importance of appearances and identity. Parker"s film contracts othello"s decline of the inevitable consequences of the protagonist"s oxymoronic identity within a society who judges based on aesthetics. These are portrayed as threats to othello"s power and lead to a disintegration of his upright power. The excerpt viewed illustrates iago loading his weapon and othello, with a jealous fury. Parker"s care of constructing contributes to characterisation of othello"s black clad garment emphasising his ethnicity and iago"s brown, plain costume allows him to portray his plain speaking" image and facilitates his plans. Men should be what they seem" emphasises the two faced nature of iago where he says earlier, i am not what i am".
