Analyse the writers’ presentation of obstacles to love in ‘Othello’ (1603) by William Shakespeare, ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (1947) by Tennessee Williams and ‘The Color Purple’ (1982) by Alice Walker. Despite being written in vastly different settings, it seems that all three texts are closely concerned with the struggle of extraordinary and ordinary people alike searching for one admirable end: love. The epistolary novel ‘The Color Purple’ explores the intertwined issues of racism and sexism that
William Shakespeare’s Othello is a tragedy. The story tends to focus more on the male characters, Othello and Iago. However, the two main female characters, Desdemona and Emilia, played an active role but are often overlooked as just supporting characters. This is probably due to the time period that the writing occurred. This was the Elizabethan era. Elizabethan Women were subservient to men. They were dependent on their male family members. They were even used to merge alliances with other powerful