Rudra More Convincing than Othello - Read Vistaa's Response Too

Originally posted by: asmi279

Thank u so much fr the post! I hv been reading so many references to othello without the slightest idea of the original story..now I know the connection..thanks!

Originally posted by: Vistaa

Res😊

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Oh, what a delicious post, Sonya Sa!😃 And hugs for reading Othello for RR...daily soap jo na karaye woh kam hai😆

Shakespeare fan I am...a huge one, but offended, not. 😊

Now to the substance of your post...could not agree more with what you have to say about Rudr. His mother's betrayal, and the subsequent bitterness of his father and its effect on a young, immature boy's psyche is established beyond any discussion. With Paro. he was swayed for a bit under the force of his attraction...but we would take any resultant mellowing in his manner to be a permanent change in his belief system, at our own peril. Any sufficiently important event/deed would be able to knock him back to square one vis--vis beautiful women...and that is exactly what has happened. This narrative of Paro, a beguiling, beautiful woman, playing dirty...pretending to be nice and loving to his father, and then turning around to harm him...plays so neatly into Rudr's world view. This is what I would have expected to have happened. No surprises there.

About Othello...can I say at the outset, that in my view, Shakespeare's genius lies not in the most ironclad of plots, or the most original of stories. In fact, many of his celebrated plays owe their genesis to other sources/oral traditions/folklore/history. You only have to look at the plot contrivances in Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, to see what I am talking about. Shakespeare's genius is the treatment and the language...the dialogues these characters utter that elevate them from a mere character to someone larger, and force the audience to think. Shylock's "if you tickle us do we not laugh" speech, Portia's "the quality of mercy is twice blessed", and Othello's "one that loved not wisely, but too well" are ⭐️⭐️

Othello was, as you said, a former slave. He was a Moor, and of the black race, who reached his current station in life through the dint of his bravery and caught the eye of a beautiful, white, rich maiden Desdemona. She fell in love with him deeply and irrevocably, and much against the wishes of her own father, married him. Therein lies Othello's tragedy. What he had encountered all his life was mostly harsh words and discrimination on account of his skin color and ethnicity...Desdemona's love was the anomaly. The exception, rather than the rule. Ultimately, his life-long insecurities overcame the trust he had in her, and he allowed himself to be manipulated into thinking that she was unfaithful to him.

On the face of it, the handkerchief appears to be a silly reason to believe the worst of your wife, but you have to remember that this is a play with just five acts and a handful of scenes. The scope to really expound on a story line and develop it is sort of limited😊.

As you know, all tragic heroes, Shakespearean or otherwise, have a fatal character flaw that becomes the reason of their downfall. Macbeth's ambition, Hamlet's procrastination, Othello's jealousy...it was the green-eyed monster that did Othello in. This is a Hindi soap, so hopefully, Rudr's misconceptions would not prove to be nearly as deadly.😃

Originally posted by: Vistaa

Res😊

Edited:

Oh, what a delicious post, Sonya Sa!😃 And hugs for reading Othello for RR...daily soap jo na karaye woh kam hai😆

Shakespeare fan I am...a huge one, but offended, not. 😊

Now to the substance of your post...could not agree more with what you have to say about Rudr. His mother's betrayal, and the subsequent bitterness of his father and its effect on a young, immature boy's psyche is established beyond any discussion. With Paro. he was swayed for a bit under the force of his attraction...but we would take any resultant mellowing in his manner to be a permanent change in his belief system, at our own peril. Any sufficiently important event/deed would be able to knock him back to square one vis--vis beautiful women...and that is exactly what has happened. This narrative of Paro, a beguiling, beautiful woman, playing dirty...pretending to be nice and loving to his father, and then turning around to harm him...plays so neatly into Rudr's world view. This is what I would have expected to have happened. No surprises there.

About Othello...can I say at the outset, that in my view, Shakespeare's genius lies not in the most ironclad of plots, or the most original of stories. In fact, many of his celebrated plays owe their genesis to other sources/oral traditions/folklore/history. You only have to look at the plot contrivances in Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, to see what I am talking about. Shakespeare's genius is the treatment and the language...the dialogues these characters utter that elevate them from a mere character to someone larger, and force the audience to think. Shylock's "if you tickle us do we not laugh" speech, Portia's "the quality of mercy is twice blessed", and Othello's "one that loved not wisely, but too well" are ⭐️⭐️

Othello was, as you said, a former slave. He was a Moor, and of the black race, who reached his current station in life through the dint of his bravery and caught the eye of a beautiful, white, rich maiden Desdemona. She fell in love with him deeply and irrevocably, and much against the wishes of her own father, married him. Therein lies Othello's tragedy. What he had encountered all his life was mostly harsh words and discrimination on account of his skin color and ethnicity...Desdemona's love was the anomaly. The exception, rather than the rule. Ultimately, his life-long insecurities overcame the trust he had in her, and he allowed himself to be manipulated into thinking that she was unfaithful to him.

On the face of it, the handkerchief appears to be a silly reason to believe the worst of your wife, but you have to remember that this is a play with just five acts and a handful of scenes. The scope to really expound on a story line and develop it is sort of limited😊.

As you know, all tragic heroes, Shakespearean or otherwise, have a fatal character flaw that becomes the reason of their downfall. Macbeth's ambition, Hamlet's procrastination, Othello's jealousy...it was the green-eyed monster that did Othello in. This is a Hindi soap, so hopefully, Rudr's misconceptions would not prove to be nearly as deadly.😃