Category: Literature

Among other things, As You Like It is a play about the instability of normative ideas of friendship, sexuality, family, identity, and gender. But as many critics have pointed out, including Valerie Rohy, who you read this week, the play’s ending––the fact that it concludes in marriage––is a conservative one, as it forces its characters…

For this assignment, you will write a critical argument about Sula or The Reader. You will want to make the following moves to receive an A on this assignment: 1. Introduce the reader to the novel. Summarize a critical controversy involving two or more scholars who have conflicting views of Sula or The Reader. (1…

The evaluation essay is based on three parameters, 1: comprehension and insight, 2: organization of response, 3: grammar, spelling and sentence structure. Just do a comprehensive review on the document provided. Write about the main ideas, themes, and some writing devices.

Explore the Hamlet textual network by investigating a theme – i.e. uncertainty/certainty, acting, appearance/reality, and memory/remembrance – in William Shakespeare’s play and in Tom Stoppard’s play RaGaD. Answer questions like these in developing your argument: How does Tom Stoppard define and transform a major theme from Shakespeare’s original Hamlet? Why does he transforms the theme…

Write an epilogue to The Circle in which Mae reflects on the decade that has passed since the final scene of the book. Your epilogue should describe how the world has changed in the ten years since she sat at Annie’s bedside. Your job is to imagine what happened to the Circle and its influence…

ELIT 340: C.S. Lewis Analysis Paper The goal of this paper is to explore Lewis’s writings on a deeper level by tracing a theme across two or more of C.S. Lewis’s works (including books, essays, poetry, lectures, etc.). These may be works we have read in class, but you are welcome to include others as…

Compare and contrast two similarities and one difference between any two of the stories listed below. Think about how the themes, characters, settings, plot, symbolism, imagery, allusions, foreshadow, foil, irony, conflict, mood, tone, voice, and allegory are represented in both stories. Literature is open to interpretation. The use of first person must NOT be included.…

Literary analyses are essays that examine a piece of literature to understand its messages, interpret its meanings, appreciate its techniques, and/or understand its historical and/or social contexts. analyze “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” by ZZ Packer (LtG pg. 335-350). The key to analyzing a text is to read the text “closely.” Thoroughly examine the author’s language and…

look at the attached photo, choose any option (ONLY ONE) between 1-5 which ever fits best for you, to write about the story ″Beware: Do Not Read This Poem” by Ishmael Reed

I will attach the two documents- one for Tao Qian and one for Du Fu, both of these documents will be used to answer the questions. 2. Like Tao Qian, Du Fu also mentions is “Thatched Roof” (1032). What is the difference in their descriptions of their homes? Why did he start the poem talking…