Contexts

Othello

AO3 - Early Jacobean audience, concerned with race, power, social decay, Christianity + morality

Venetian society - state of order in comparison to Ottoman Empire

Cyprus - unruly, birthplace of Venus (married to Vulcan but affairs w Mars) (Roman mythology of Aphrodite + ‘God of War’)

AO4 - revenge tragedy, domestic tragedy, female suffering, otherness, moral ambiguity + villain, psychological + philosophical exploration, death + destruction, general tragedy aspects

Atonement

AO3 - world war 1 evacuation (Dunkirk), domestic role + decorum + morality for high class women, clear social divide but weaker than TMRA, religious Christian values but less emphasised

reflexivity, (post)modernism, metanarrative

AO4 - London 1935: locked room mystery, ‘cozy crime’ London 1999: whodunnit, police procedural, confession, resolution, chronology of plot, love danger death, violence betrayal, subplots

TMRA

AO3 - upper middle class golf widow, education was rare + only for status, rigid class structures, several servants highest field of employment

AO4 - Golden Age fiction, locked room mystery, cozy crime, aspects of forensic science detective fiction, confession, violence murder theft betrayal, detective hero, love money danger death, subplots

DOAS

AO3 - Wall Street crash 1929 destroyed family business, worked in industrial sector with Willys and Charleys, American Dream 70s, 1940s setting recovery from war New York suburban transitioning to consumerism society

AO4 - Millerian tragedy, aspects of Aristotlean (fate + external pressure), female suffering, moral ambiguity, common man downfall

TOTB

AO3 - 19th century romantic novel, Victorian rural Wessex, melancholy view of life, realism, no social mobility (aristocracy), chaste domestic role of women, Christian morality + hypocrisy

AO4 - naturalistic tragedy, aspects of aristotlean (fate + external pressures), female suffering, focus on lower class