HOW HAS THE COMPOSER OF THE CONTEMPORARY TEXT USED THE EARLIER TEXT TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE NEW? "O" directed by Tim Blake Nelson is a post modern film transformed from Shakespeare's play "Othello

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HOW HAS THE COMPOSER OF THE CONTEMPORARY TEXT USED THE EARLIER TEXT TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE NEW?

“O” directed by Tim Blake Nelson is a post modern film transformed from Shakespeare’s play “Othello”. The story remains basically the same, with the same characters and the central character being Odin (Othello).

Nelson has used the earlier text and its characters; the tragedy; the general plot; and the themes to portray high school violence and to emphasise on America’s important position in society today. Othello is set in Venice as it was considered an important city during that time, where as O is set in America representing how America is considered important in society today. Nelson but slightly changed the ideas from the earlier text to suit contemporary audiences and today’s popular culture.  Nelson has created this modern American version of Othello, which can be called a ‘teenspear’,  to stop people especially teenagers from being intimidated by Shakespeare’s language and understand the powerful story of Othello and great characters which teenagers can relate to.

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Nelson’s characters are very similar to Shakespeare’s only more contemporary. For example Odin and Othello, are both noble Negro men who others consider to be superior. People look up to Othello because he is victorious on the battlefields and represents Venice and people look up to Odin because he is unstoppable on the basketball court and he stars in the team the Hawks. Hugo and Iago are very similar as they are both keenly jealous of Odin and Othello. Hugo is jealous because Hugo’s father, the coach considers Odin to be more of a true son than Hugo and ...

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