Communication In Othello

Communication is vital in order to be happy and to build and sustain successful relationships with others. This is a key theme shown throughout the texts Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close written by Jonathan Safran Foer, The Social Network directed by David Fincher, Othello a play by William Shakespeare and Little Miss Sunshine directed by both Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. During the texts there is a lack of communication between characters. Various events cause an absence of communication and it results in strained relationships. Although each character has a different reason for being unable to talk they all suffer the consequences. Othello, a character who loves his wife Desdemona, suspects she is being unfaithful with Cassio.
Ironically Mark has an antisocial and awkward nature. Mark’s personality is the cause of his lack of communication with other characters in the film such as his girlfriend Erica and his best friend and co-founder of facebook, Eduardo. Mark, like Othello, doesn’t have a lot of experience with women which is made clear at the beginning we see Mark having a one-sided conversation with his girlfriend, where he is not listening or paying attention. He is patronising Erica when he says, “If I get in, I will be taking you to the events and the gatherings and you’ll be meeting a lot of people you wouldn’t normally get to meet.” This shows that Mark doesn’t understand how to treat Erica and also doesn’t realise how she will react badly to this. Erica becomes frustrated with Mark and says, “...because it is exhausting. Dating you is like dating a StairMaster.” The conversation starts to spiral downwards and she ends the relationship, which takes a while to sink in for Mark. This connects with Othello and Desdemona because their relationship ends with Desdemona being killed due to a lack of communication between them. Erica and Mark do not end their relationship dramatically but they have the same cause for their split.The men in both relationships found it difficult to listen, and talk about the events happening in their lives. Mark was brutally honest to Erica at times which hurt her feelings, but he never listened to her. Mark was selfish and did not take the time to think about what he said before he said it. Othello did not talk to Desdemona about her suspected infidelity nor did he listen to her when she tried to tell him that she was faithful to him. Both relationships had a lack of communication which resulted in both having an unhappy