Othello

 This is a movie review of Othello, one of the most famous love tragedies. The project consists the setting, synopsis, major characters, staging and film editing, theme, personal reaction, background information, comments, and symbolism. Othello is set at the time of the wars between Venice and Turkey in late sixteenth century. Cyprus, the setting for most of the action, was a Venetian outpost attacked by the Turks in 1570 and conquered right after that. The original …

…a symbol of Othello's love. Iago manipulates the handkerchief and let Othello belief that Desdemona lost her fixity. The pattern of the red strawberries on the white handkerchief symbolized virginity. Desdemona’s death is another symbol. Desdemona is literally suffocated beneath the demands put on her fidelity. Since her first lines, Desdemona has seemed capable of meeting or even rising above those demands. In the end, Othello stifles the speech that made Desdemona so powerful.