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A 7 page paper which examines the influences on the work, how it came to be, both in terms of its creator (an interpretation of William Shakespeare’s tragic play) and environmental factors such as politics, culture, and technology. Also provided is a description and analysis of the film’s tone, structure, and message, and also discusses the effects of the work on culture, specifically its past and present impact upon social change. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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terms. In William Shakespeares tragic play Othello, race is the foundation upon which the structure, conflict, and characterizations are built. As the tension builds to a tragic climax,
the protagonist struggles to answer the question, "What does it mean to be a black Moor in a white European society?" (Nostbakken 60) In the Western world of 1995,
the black man was still struggling to find his place in what was still very much a white mans world. When Oliver Parkers film adaptation of Othello was released,
O.J. Simpson was on trial in a Los Angeles courtroom for the murder of his former wife, Nicole, and her friend Ron Goldman. The timing could not have been
better to explore interracial relationships, past and present, and to ponder the ways in which the black man is still relegated to the social periphery on the basis of his
color (Welsh PG). Just as Othello and perceptions of him were rooted within the political and cultural contexts of Shakespeares time, so, too, were director Parkers approaches to the
film. Was William Shakespeare a racist who believed that Commander Othello, despite his military prestige and marriage to a well-to-do Caucasian,
was little more than a savage who was ultimately enslaved by primal passions and instinctive violent tendencies (Hall 212)? There are critics who maintain that what Shakespeares play offers
is a distorted view of an African male, which was based on a prejudicial Elizabethan stereotype. Influenced by this notion, Oliver Parker elected to present his Othello within the
context of the urban stereotype of the black male. As played by African-American actor Laurence Fishburne, who is the first non-white actor to portray Othello, he resembles a modern-day
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