In what ways do two of the works you have studied (in form and/or content) question or subvert norms, conventions or traditions?
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Norms, conventions and traditions are the assumptions a society or a literary form treats as natural; to subvert them is to expose their instability. Both Othello and Persepolis are driven by this kind of destabilisation, though they do so in different ways. Shakespeare works within the established form of tragedy