Flashcards
Untitled
Cards in this deck (9)
- 1Othello - Shakespeare: Race"Black Ram is tupping your White Yew"
- 2Othello - Shakespeare: Race"beast with two backs.
you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" - 3Othello - Shakespeare: Gender" thieves! thieves! thieves!
Look to your house, your daughter and your bags" - Desdemona is property along with the house and bags. - 4Othello - Shakespeare: Gender"But I do think it is their husbands' faults
If wives do fall...The ills we do, their ills instruct us so." - reverse gender stereotypes by Emilia which is actually very logical. - 5Othello - Geoffrey Sax: GenderTo some degree, Sax’s film asserts the independence of women. For instance, there is no need for a Brabantio as Dessie can make her own decisions. Women are shown to be sexually active. Both Lulu and Dessie have lived independently and Dessie is depicted working as a journalist.
Nonetheless, there are aspects of the film that seem to suggest limits to female freedom. Both Lulu and Dessie are almost always depicted in domestic settings. When Dessie is outdoors, jogging, she is vulnerable to attack. - 6Othello - Geoffrey Sax: Gender"Othello: Look at her. She’s so sweet. Who would have guessed what a whore she was?
Lulu: A whore? Who says she was a whore?"
undermining her femininity by addressing her with a derogatory term such as: Whore - 7Othello - Geoffrey Sax: RaceThe murder of the Billy Coats representative of Stephan Lawrence in the Brixton riots
The film ends with Jago stating that it wasn't about race or politics but love, "simple as that." - 8Othello - Geoffrey Sax: EndingAs you review the end of the film:
• The defeat of the case against the policemen who killed Billy Coates
• Lulu’s silence
• Jago’s promotion
• The words of the Prime Minister and colleagues - 9Othello - Geoffrey Sax's: EndingOrder is not restored in the film. The Prime Minister and colleagues misinterpret Othello’s suicide and the truth about Jago is never revealed – in fact Jago is rewarded with a promotion. This seems to reflect a very different attitude to what we saw in Shakespeare’s play.
Information
- Description
- Year 11 English Flashcards on Untitled, created by oliviamilford on 25/08/2013.
- Created by
- oliviamilford
- Views
- 108
- Tags
- Rating