This project will utilize your prior knowledge, your analysis paper, research, and previous reading. Objective: Learn to utilize prior work within a larger project, such as a master’s thesis or end of coursework exam/essay.
Using your novel/poetry paper you will be adding in other information and reorganizing your material to become a longer-length analysis comparing modern literature to the novel “Wuthering Heights”
-you may select any previous text you have read before
-you will research other analysis papers to support your claims
Select three of the following: Symbolism
Nature and seasons
Duality
Social Class
Gender Roles
Motifs
Outline example:
Introduction – introduces the three texts and connects them with similarities
Body – Utilizes several points from your previous paper with reference to modern day literature – take into account any of the topics that you have already mentioned and insert more information to compare or contrast. For example: Where your original paper mentions the foils of the two women, this would be a prime place to further discuss gender roles, and start a new section/paragraph. Conclusion – Don’t just restate your original thesis, but tell me something substantial about what these readings have actually taught you.
Category: British Literature
Feel free to choose whichever theme you want and choose whichever two readings you want just no plagiarism thank you.
Attactched is a large file that has all the information needed to write this paper. NO AI NO PLAGERISM.
I have left notes in either bold or red letters to address important information. Some of the inforamtion can be used word for word as they are my words. there is a section that is NOT TO BE USED WORD FOR WORD, as I did insert Google and AI generated works on the topic. I did that ONLY so that both myself and the writer could get a better understanding of what the prompt is asking.
Compare and Contrast the book and the film of Romeo & Juliet :1996 & the book and film of Mary Shelby’s Frankenstein:1994
Demonstrates a deep understanding of British aterary concepts, themes, and historical context.
Analyzes British literature thoughtfully, drawing insightfal conclusions.
Well organized, visually appealing, and error free.
All sentences are well constructed and have varied strueture and length. The author makes no errors in grammar, mechanics, and/or spelling.
6-9 pages (not including works cited) due 5/1
Answer one question
Jude the Obscure longer paper topics
Professor Norman Page defines Jude as “the most restless of all Hardy’s heros” (367). What does the novel say about this restlessness in Jude (and/or in Sue)?
Howells claims that it is “wretched Sue who spoils [Jude’s] life and her own, helplessly, inevitably, [and] is the kind of fool who finds the fool in the poet and prophet so often, and brings him to naught” (377). D.H. Lawrence also wrote that “One of the supremest products of our civilisation is Sue, and a product that well frightens us” (393). Does the blame for Jude’s failed life land soundly on Sue? Why or why not?
Margaret Oliphant calls Arabella “a woman so completely animal that it is at once too little and too much to call her vicious. She is a human pig […] quite without shame or consciousness of any occasion for shame…” (380). Oliphant later refers to Jude as “always the puppet, always acted upon by the others…” (380). Are these comparisons to pig and puppet accurate? Why or why not?
“[Four] unnecessary lives” critic Edmund Gosse says the novel centers on: “the poor village lad, with his longing for the intellectual career; the crude village beauty, like a dahlia in a cottage-garden; the neurotic, semi-educated girl of hyper-sensitive instincts; and the dull, earthy, but not ungenerous schoolmaster. On these four failures, inextricably tied together and dragging one another down, our attention is riveted” (384). Are Jude, Arabella, Sue, and Pillotson entangled “unnecessary failures” as Gosse characterizes them?
Critic Penny Boumelha focuses on Phillotson’s statement that Jude and Sue “seem to be one person split in two!” (188). Boumelha elaborates on this idea: “their lives follow a very similar course” beginning with “a mistaken marriage as a result of sexual vulnerability,” and then they “escape these first marriages, become parents, lose their jobs, their children, and their lover” (399-400). Do you find that Sue and Jude are “one person split in two”? Explain.
Writer and critic Elaine Showalter describes Little Father Time “a victim of spoiled heredity like his parents before, a ‘preternaturally old boy’ [227] who pays with his sanity and his life for the intolerance, cruelty, and narrowness of his society. He is the mad child whose breakdown is the signifier of the conflicts, lies, and hypocrisies of the sexual system. He becomes, as Hardy says, ‘the whole tale of their situation’” (418-19). Is Little Father Time a symbol of what happens to Jude and Sue? How so?
In his introduction to the ‘65 Riverside edition of Jude, Irving Howe argues that “The sense Jude leaves one with, the quality of the pain it inflicts, has mostly to do with the sheer difficulty of human beings living elbow to elbow and heart to heart; the difficulty of being unable to bear prolonged isolation or closeness; the difficulty . . . of getting through the unspoken miseries of daily life” (xiv). In relation to Howe’s view, how is Jude still relevant to today’s readers?
Examples modeling works cited entries
Hardy, Thomas. Jude The Obscure, Edited by Ralph Pite, Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed., W. W. Norton, 2016. pp. 9-332.
Howe, Irving, Preface. Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy, Riverside Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1965. pp. v-xxvi.
Howells, William Dean. “From Harper’s Weekly,” Jude The Obscure, by Thomas Hardy, edited by Ralph Pite, Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed., W. W. Norton, 2016. pp. 377-379.
Lawrence, D.H. “Male and Female,” Jude The Obscure, by Thomas Hardy, edited by Ralph Pite, Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed., W. W. Norton, 2016. pp. 393-394.
You will be reading a complete novel by Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited). To better understand the book and its author, you are going to write an annotated bibliography.
I want you to find three authoritative books about Evelyn Waugh and five scholarly articles about Waugh and Brideshead Revisited. Then you will summarize each of the eight works you have chosen, one or two paragraphs for each selection. You are not expected to read every one of them – you won’t have time.
For this bibliography I will also accept using one of the two film sources of Brideshead in place of one of the articles.
Start your paper with a short introductory paragraph giving a brief sketch of who Waugh is and why he’s an important 20th century author.
As we have been speaking and reading authors who are part of
British Romanticism, there are a number of commonalities in theme, tone and
even place. For this paper, 1) identify the period of the Romantic movement in
England as well as some of the dominant characteristics. 2) Identify who are
considered “The Lake Poets, and why. 3) Choose four authors we have read
from this period and indicate what they are best known for. (Percy Byshee Shelley, John Keats, William Wordsworth, and Lord Byron) 4) Now identify the
major themes that run through the Romantics and choose one or two poems for
each of the authors you identified and how those poems illustrate those themes. (Percy Byshee Shelley: Ozymandias and Ode to the West Wind, John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, William Wordsworth: London (1802), and Lord Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage) Make sure you quote from the poems you choose. I’vattached an outline and a draft.