Othello Speech – Modernisation of Geoffery Sax’s Movie

Othello is a tragedy that examines the darker aspects of gentle existence such and jealousy and r unconstipatedge. Othello is unique in the way that it forces us as audience to descry what it is to be human. Shakespeare ingeniously challenges the Elizabethan attitudes and values towards the preconceived opinions of race and gender while also presenting his contextual melodic theme of chaos versus order.These values transcend the context of both modern and contemporary audiences and it is through the BBC adaptation by Geoffrey Sax that modern audiences are able to engage with relevance of these issues. Othello is a story of black and white, or even more so black versus white. Shakespeare map outs this racial battle on an interesting level, as a battle of good versus evil which is always seen in black versus white. It is within 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 E lizabethan times there would be no- mavin 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, nobility and rank yet he is constantly low 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 peachy deal of people at the time the play was written as even the Queen of England was racist as at one point she expressed her discontent at the great number of Negars and blackamoors which are crept into the realm. Yet it is through Othellos character that Shakespeare is able to challenge the uninspired ideology of