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This rate and review is offered in the spirit of assistance. Please feel free to ignore any, or all suggestions. This is your work, and I'm just happy to have had the chance to review it! ![Smile *Smile*](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/e21/smile.png)
What are my overall impressions?
I love Shakespeare, so I was drawn to this. I haven't thought of Othello in such a long time (and back then I was more of an Iago fan!) I think this is a good essay in the making, but with a little re-editing and time, you could make it a really good review. You have a choice at the start to make this a 'Review' or an 'Essay', I think you need a little more weight behind some of your arguments, and a little less bias, if you are going to go the essay route. As a review of the film, this format plays out well ![Smile *Smile*](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/e21/smile.png)
With that in mind, you may want to consider your use of language. Intelligent doesn't have to be arrogant hyperbole, and your natural voice seems to develop later on the item unfolds, in a more informative and considered way.
What are my favourite parts?
I really did like your closing paragraph. In it you summed up well, and took a more objective look at the two pieces and how they compared with each other. The language had settled down to a more 'review' friendly tone; intelligent and informal ![Thumbsup *Thumbsup*](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/e21/thumbsup.png)
What are my suggestions?
has stood the test of time[s] as a
The movie bears a unique insight into the gradual madness of its protagonist, as well as the relationship he shares with friends. How? I realise this is an opening paragraph, but as this quote is just sandwiched between two rather negative comments, it seems a little forced.
Nevertheless, Shakespeare’s catastrophic collision of cacophonous characters with their controversial conspiracies needs more precision to bring out their counterfeit charms, or lack thereof Alliteration is a useful devise, but one that shouldn't be over used to the point of becoming more decorative than needed. You could end up alienating your readers by appearing a little too pompous (heck, Shakespeare wrote for us proletarians; so, why not us?)
While the dumbing-down of this teen movie clone neutralizes some of the confusion of the original, the loss of Shakespeare’s flowery dialogue, replaced by upper class white kid pseudo-ghetto Ebonics, flattens out in an attempt to develop emotion through the use of body language and innuendo. - you may want to consider re-structuring this sentence into several smaller ones to make your points more easily digestible.
leaving the ambitious Iago, an experienced veteran of numerous engagements, to the dicey position of Ancient. While it is still an honored position, one whose possessor has the ear of the general, it is not what Iago feels is due him, and he resents that is this mainly supposition, based on the film version? After all, the literary Iago is famed for being one of the best examples of personified evil for it's own sake.
In the first two paragraphs you jump from mentioning the Play to the Film, to the Reading experience, to the Play and back to the Film. For a better flow to your essay, you may want to consider re-structuring your delivery to move the reader more seamlessly between your view points.
This is one of Shakespeare’s greatest failings in “Othello,” that he insinuates that Othello is a great man, and his love for Desdemona is real, but the reader never really gets deeply involved in the proof of these allegations this is not the tone of an unbiased essay. You may wish to address this by considering the history of period in which this play was written, and the audience it was playing to. Elizabeth was not considered to be a natural inheritor of power, but was embraced by her people as a powerful diplomat. Her reaction to the evil of possible usurpers, both home and abroad, was all about her ear for power. This play would have voiced her own concerns, had an impact on the populous and the surplus nature of the love story would have vindicated her status as Virgin Queen.
Othello had not lost affection for his friend. Othello cannot instantly forgive him because - changes in tense can prove uncomfortable for a reader
I do hope you work further on this, as your subject matter really interests me ![Smile *Smile*](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/e21/smile.png)
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