In what ways does the novel lead readers to re-think the relationships between race, class,nationality, and gender? What conclusions might one draw about such relationships in the novel?
Category: World Literature
” Discuss what forces Sundiata and the Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque have to overcome and how they go about doing it.
Sundiata and Popul Vuh
” Discuss what forces Sundiata and the Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque have to overcome and how they go about doing it.
Identify these roles by analyzing their social status, characterization, development throughout the story, and their personal struggles.
Write a literary analysis essay discussing why this romance is so timeless.
Which character represents pride, and which one embodies prejudice?
Identify these roles by analyzing their social status, characterization, development throughout the story, and their personal struggles.
How did these circumstances build enough tension to create such an enduring love story?
Write a literary analysis essay that discusses the similarities between the two stories and what literary elements Seth Grahame-Smith uses to create a more macabre atmosphere to tell the story of love, social class, and the role of women in the early 19th century. What results when a story of such delicate manners is told in the presence of the grotesque?
Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama.
Compare (NO CONTRAST) the theme of madness between Don Quixote by Cervantes and Diary of a Madman by Gogal.
Write a 7 page paper compare (NO CONTRAST) the theme of madness between Don Quixote by Cervantes and Diary of a Madman by Gogal. ONLY USE AS REFERENCE:
Don Quixote, (pdf attached in files)
Book 1, chapters 1-10, 18, 20;
Book 2: chapters 3, 4, 10, 54, 63.
Diary of a Madman: http://www.online-literature.com/gogol/4437/
What did you find most surprising about this unit, and why?What aspect of the unit struck me as most meaningful, and why?
What did you find most surprising about this unit, and why?
What aspect of the unit struck me as most meaningful, and why?
What aspect of the unit was hardest for me to think about, and why?
Select a novel from the 20th Century that has been controversial and explain at least two ways that the text has been interpreted by readers and critics.
Select a novel from the 20th Century that has been controversial and explain at least two ways that the text has been interpreted by readers and critics.
How have the issues and themes changed in the adaptation?What do you think of the adaptation in relation to the original?
Select a work of literature from this course and examine how it had been adapted into another work of art as a film, drama, a sequel.
Identify the author, title, and date, genre, and form of the adaptation (the facts).
Identfy what the new work has changed (genere, setting, plot, characters, theme)
How have the issues and themes changed in the adaptation?
What do you think of the adaptation in relation to the original?
Discuss how artists and scientists are practically the same; therefore, art and science are intrinsically linked.
Peer Review
Discuss how artists and scientists are practically the same; therefore, art and science are intrinsically linked.
What aspect of the unit struck me as most meaningful, and why?What aspect of the unit was hardest for me to think about, and why?
What aspect of the unit struck me as most meaningful, and why?
What aspect of the unit was hardest for me to think about, and why?
Is Winston’s novels hero, by Orwells definition? Is he a hero that readers can admire and emulate? Explain your position by tracing Winston’s actions throughout the novel and considering the result of those actions.
1984 Literary Essay: Winston Smith, Hero or Not?
PROMPT:
George Orwell once offered the definition of heroism ordinary people doing whatever they can to change social systems that do not respect human decency, even when the knowledge that they can’t possibly succeed.
In Winston Smith, the protagonist of 1984, Orwell create an ordinary person, an “everyman” Who stands for all the oppressed citizens of Oceania. Yeah, as the novel closes, Winston cries as his love for big brother overwhelms him. Is Winston’s novels hero, by Orwells definition? Is he a hero that readers can admire and emulate? Explain your position by tracing Winston’s actions throughout the novel and considering the result of those actions.