Similarities Between Shakespeare And Moorhouse

Communication mediums capacitate module integration of human complexities stimulated by conventional or eccentric fashions. William Shakespeare and Jocelyn Moorhouse, author and director of Othello and The Dressmaker, remark how philosophical values transcend over time from the Renaissance to modern eras. Both correlate how values are not governed by time-framed social context; but driven by human concepts of appearance versus reality, prejudice, jealousy and justice. Shakespeare and Moorhouse use various literary (epithets and soliloquy) and film techniques (angle and sound) to maximise our relative modern understanding.
Historical catalysts intertwine appearance and reality, whereby external forces shape personal behaviour within social …show more content…
Shakespeare incorporates Renaissance context to communicate how 1600s Moorish racial prejudices involves strategies to accept white Venetian insiders and ostracise representative protagonist: Othello, caused by unaccepted cultural backgrounds. While Othello is a Christian Moor, acknowledged for military integrity, metaphorically animalistic descriptions including, ‘Barbary horse’, ‘black ram’, ‘Thick-Lips’, demonstrates the interplay between Iago and how conventional ideologies obstruct and devalue Othello’s human nature, where subject to humiliation and control within social settings. Shakespeare communicates outcomes of social destruction, stimulated by ostracised individuals who challenge conventional social values via dramatic irony, ‘She has deceived her father and may thee’. Brabantio reinforces Venetian discrimination by disbelieving the miscegenation between Desdemona and Othello, where foreshadowing a diminished consecration caused by racial heritage and challenged conventional values. Shakespeare’s conclusive view entails Othello’s contradiction towards racial stereotypes and personal acknowledgement as a Christian insider who killed a metaphorical ‘circumcised dog’ (Turkish outsider) to reinforce his position in mainstream Venetian society. Ultimately, Shakespeare communicates how personal and social prejudice …show more content…
Shakespeare intertwines appearance versus reality, racial prejudice and 1600s Renaissance context to conclude the downfall of representative figure: Othello, vulnerably driven by personal and social forces of jealousy. Orchestrated via Iago’s indirect interplay with Othello via duplicitous and innuendo manipulation of Desdemona’s infidelity, social forces catalyses Othello’s metaphorical consumption by the jealous ‘Green-eyed monster’, controlling personal behaviour, actions and misperception of reality due to his metaphysical ‘free and open nature’ and racial prejudice. Via imagery, ‘This honest creature doubtless sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds’, Shakespeare demonstrates the personal impact of decisive jealousy stimulating Othello for ‘ocular proof’ of Desdemona’s infidelity. Misconceived by social forces, Othello dispossesses the distinguishable capacity between appearance and reality, accepting Iago’s false circumstantial, handkerchief evidence. Shakespeare concludes the conflicting jealous nature via Othello’s change in literacy, psychological stability and actions. Othello transitions from human to prejudiced beast-like characteristics and enduring epileptic fits obstructing capacities to communicate intelligibly, the trait distinguishing humans from animals where repetitious interjections, ‘The Handkerchief!’, reinforces the