The politics of race, class, gender

Select one of the following subjects: EITHER the subject of marriage/gender OR the subject of the immigrant experience (which involves race/cultural assimilation) Determine what point The Tragedy of Othello makes about that subject and through what device(s) does it make it? As in literary devices, such as characterization, figurative language, imagery, setting, syntax, etc. Read the poems hyperlinked in the list on page 15 of this document. Select a poem that addresses the subject you’ve selected (like Othello, some poems address both). Determine what point the poem makes about that subject and through what device(s) it makes it (devices such as figurative language, imagery, syntax, etc.). Evaluate the play and the poem’s treatment of the subject. In what ways do those treatments differ and/or resemble each other? What conclusions can we draw from those similarities or differences between two texts published four centuries apart? As this is a research project, you must make use of at least three outside sources (not simply the poem and play). Conduct research4 relevant to your topic (either race/culture or marriage/gender, in areas such as the following: the history of the time and place in which the author wrote his or her poem or play; the history of the time and place in which the play/poem is set; the politics of race, class, gender of that time, etc.;