Othello in Shakespeare Lay and Andrew Davies Film

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Othello in Shakespeare lay and Andrew Davies Film

The Andrew Davies’ film, Othello, released in the year 2001 has shown a successful transformation of the tragic play written by Shakespeare, Othello, which was initially performed in 1604.  It follows the actions of the renowned General Othello in the process of drawing his love for Desdemona, his wife, and watches it changing into jealousy because Iago misleads him to be confident of that she has an affair Michael Cassia (Daalder 71). However, such manipulations resulted in Othello suffocating his lovely life following the rage and jealousy he had.  Committing suicide after noticing that he had been duped was the next step that he took.

Such is a similarity as the Davies follows the influential Ben Jago’s plans to ensure that the law enforcement officers’ commissioner, John Othello, considers Dessie, his wife, to be having an intimate relationship with the police officer, Michael Cass. Such a suspicion that is planted by John leads to him murdering his wife as well as committing suicide based on his jealousy, leaving the post of police Commissioner empty and Jago is promoted. Davies manipulates this story by ensuring that the main characters, sections of the plot as well as the main ideas result in a new meaning for the audience, by his illustrations regarding the adjustments of the values with the change of the situation.

For him to appeal to the contemporary audience, Davies mirrors the values of England in the 21st century. Such play dramatic change would have garnered more audience by compelling and exciting the audience in the Shakespeare’s time in the circumstance of the Jacobean era. The film by Davies similarly entertains his audience. Moreover, he is prone to ensure that his viewers or audience think about the issues presented by the characters in the play (Davies 92). The movie illustrates the way individual’s values have varied in some way from the Shakespearean period.

Most of the people currently are still prejudiced as well as offensive to other ones of the different races. Besides, the patriarchal societal persons commit lawless deeds whereas the legal framework attempts to make the same society to be in order. Davies sets his video or film transformation in London, and it begins with a race riot that indicates that racism remains a vital issue in the current society.

Moreover, his film highpoints and concentrates on the racial tensions, because of it being an issue that many people concentrate and associate with it. Nonetheless, my view regarding this change is that it relays the first play. There is no more capturing and moving since one can associate intensely to it, because of the way the modern society is run and organized ("Jacobean Era Othello"). The film by Davies is a fruitful transformation regarding the theme of conflicts compared to the order that is explored in the community, which is corresponding to the main text because the setting is still that of a patriarchal community. Nations such as Australia are seen to be a civilized nation because of a well-established system of government following the laws and regulations stipulation in the country’s Constitution.