> Compare the way writers present the forces of destructive love in Othello, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and A View from the Bridge.
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> Shakespeare, Hardy and Miller present the forces destructive love in a variety of different ways, key ways include; through the use of literary terminology, representation of characters and symbolic themes of culture/society at the time. It is often portrayed within a mixture of other categories of love; patriarchal, romantic and unrequited intertwined with the most prominent themes of fate, family and tragedy.
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> In terms of form, structure and context; Shakespeare has chosen the form of a play for his story of Othello therefore being divided into Acts and Scenes which develops the undertone of drama allowing for 'cliffhanger' endings, which when portrayed in the theater is positively reviewed by the audience. For example the first known performance in November 1604 at Whitehall Palace, which then created widespread delight causing the play to move across England. Perhaps the play was so greatly beloved due to the time in which it was written, as it came into the Jacobean period (when King James I ruled England) as the period of delight during Elizabethan times (due to War Victory) was over and so the tone of the play will be keeping well with the tone of the time between the reigns. It will also be coinciding with the theme of War as the play is set in the backdrop of Wars between Venice and Turkey when in reality the Spanish Armada will be fresh in people's minds. Similarly for Tess being divided into phases to allow paramount endings and show progress of the plot with the heroine i.e. morality implications such as "The Maiden," "Maiden No More," and "Fulfilment". It could be suggested that the form of play would have been an interesting alternative introducing the more physical vulnerability of Tess to be displayed on stage