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Wuthering Heights - Brontë

Heathcliff mirrors Othello as an outsider consumed by jealousy and led to tragic outcomes

Jane Eyre - Brontë

TOTB - ideas of controlling and hypocritical religious morality oppressing women

Atonement - metafictions with female self-expression narrators, briony explores possibility of moral justice through storytelling while protagonist affirms truth through storytelling

The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

Othello + DOAS - Iago, Willy, and Gatsby construct illusions to show dangers of surface level truths and blind idealism

TMRA + Atonement - distorted reality by unreliable narrator, respectable communities hiding darker secrets, elements of post modernism

Metamorphoses - Ovid

TOTB + Othello - early 8th century poem collection with women sexually exploited and blamed by gods

Madame Bovalry - Flaubert

TOTB - fallen woman trope 19th century France novel

King Lear + Hamlet - Shakespeare

DOAS - Lear obsesses with self significance, fractures family + delusions alienate children; Hamlet suffers from inescapable illusions

Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck

DOAS - dreamers’ visions of better life crushed by harsh realities, myth of American Dream

The Remains of the Day - Ishiguro

Atonement - depiction of pre WW2 England + rigid class barriers betraying protagonists (Robbie)