Please do the “essay task” not the “creative task” and use the first prompt: “How does Oe use the baby’s condition as a metaphor for the protagonist’s inner turmoil (or as a metaphor for a decaying Japanese culture after WW2) and his struggle to confront his own sense of guilt and responsibility?”
All evidence used in the essay must be from the book “A Personal Matter” by Kenzaburo Oe.
Ive attached the pdf with the instructions below.
Category: World literature
I have attached all pdf sources and I aleady cited them onto the word document with the
title for each. PLEASE use all sources I have provided for you. Three sources are from the
readings given from my teacher and the other four are scholarly sources from my datbase
library.
Topic of the Paper: In this paper I aim to explore the life, works, and significance of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz within the context of the Spanish Colonial Period in Mexico. The paper will examine Sor Juana’s challenges to gender norms, her advocacy for education and intellectualism, her complex relationship with religion, and her lasting impact on Mexican and global literature.
The Bhagavadgita can be read as having the primary purpose of instructing Arjuna (and the reader) about how to act properly in a confusing and emotionally charged situation. What are the key teachings about how one is to act properly in such a situation (or in any situation). You must cite and discuss some specific, key passages from the Bhagavadgita to support or illustrate your points.
Essay requirements:
The essay response must be 1200-1500 words in length.
All arguments or statements made about the Bhagavadgita need to be rooted in these text themselves, and this needs to be made clear through direct reference to these texts.
Every reference to an idea in the text, every paraphrase of something in the text, and every direct quotation must be followed by a citation in parentheses with a page number.
Direct quotation of a passage from the text should be used only in order to present an analysis of the passage. The student should never quote from the text something that can be paraphrased in the student’s own words.
No works cited page or bibliography is required.
I need this back by 11:40 p.m. at the latest so I can make sure everything is top shape. It needs to be 3-4 pages long and I will add the book below.
This has to be cited off of the page numbers in the corner of the pdf file not how many slides there are on the pdf the page numbers should be in the 200’s.
There should be two sources, The book I attached below and another source as well of your choice. I attached the instructions as well.
Your essay should present a clear, insightful central idea, should have a clear sense of order and logic, should be well developed with specific details to support your assertions, and should use effective language that is free of grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. Avoid plot summaries and provide quotations from the text to support your ideas. Also, be sure to spend ample time writing and revising your essay.
Please ensure you reviewed the previous page on Character Analysis. Feel free to refer back to this information and the sample paper as you need to for this assignment.
Your Assignment:
Write a 1500-2000-word essay responding to the following prompt:
Compose a character analysis that compares and contrasts characters from two or more works we have studied this term.
Note: For the final paper, at least one work must be a work you have not written about in a unit essay assignment before.
Avoid summary in your essays; all writing should be directly tied to proving your argument and furthering your analysis of the works. Be sure to spend significant time directly comparing the works that you choose to write about.
This is a Research Essay, and you must include at least four secondary scholarly sources (not Wikipedia or other study guide sites). Do not simply repeat what someone else has concluded; instead, offer your own commentary or insight on what you have learned from your outside sources. You must also properly quote or paraphrase, including citations in MLA form.
Formatting:
Please utilize MLA style when citing sources. For information on citing using MLA, access the Purdue OWL MLA Formatting and Style guide. Here is an example of a well-written paper using MLA citations.
Typed/printed, double-spaced, 1″ margins. Change them in “Page Setup” on the “File” menu.
Paragraphs indented ½ inch at left; do not separate paragraphs by extra blank lines.
Quotations of four lines or less (approximately 50 words) should be integrated into the text; longer quotations should be formatted as block quotations.
All sources must be cited. Avoid USING Wikipedia and other online study guide websites, such as Shmoop. All sources must be scholarly.
Your essay should have a specific title – one that suggests what is the most interesting or important about what you have to say.
BASIS:
Compare the main female characters from “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “An Exotic Marriage,” explore how each woman’s circumstances and experiences shape her character and the themes they represent.
**The Yellow Wallpaper:**
– **Character:** The protagonist in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a nameless woman who is suffering from postpartum depression. Confined to a room with barred windows and a bed nailed to the floor, she becomes increasingly obsessed with the room’s wallpaper, seeing a trapped woman behind the pattern. As the story progresses, her mental state deteriorates, leading to a final act of liberation as she tears down the wallpaper.
– **Themes:** The story explores themes of mental health, the oppression of women, and the consequences of societal control over individuals, particularly women, during the 19th century. The protagonist’s gradual descent into madness is a poignant commentary on the stifling effects of patriarchal society.
**An Exotic Marriage:**
– **Character:** In “An Exotic Marriage,” the protagonist, Alice, is a young woman who marries a man from a different culture. She finds herself isolated and struggling to adapt to her new life, particularly in understanding her husband’s customs and expectations.
– **Themes:** This story delves into themes of cultural differences, identity, and the challenges of marriage across different cultural backgrounds. Alice’s experiences highlight the complexities and conflicts that can arise when individuals from diverse backgrounds come together in marriage.
**Comparison:**
– Both stories feature female protagonists who experience a sense of confinement and isolation, though in different contexts.
– While the protagonist in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is confined physically and mentally within her environment, Alice in “An Exotic Marriage” is more confined by the cultural and societal expectations of her new life.
– Both stories highlight the struggles of women in patriarchal societies, albeit in different ways. “The Yellow Wallpaper” focuses on the psychological effects of societal control, while “An Exotic Marriage” explores the challenges of navigating cultural differences and expectations within a marriage.
– Ultimately, both protagonists undergo transformative experiences, with the protagonist in “The Yellow Wallpaper” finding a form of liberation through her madness, and Alice in “An Exotic Marriage” facing the complexities of cultural adaptation and personal identity.
Create a 5-10 minute PowerPoint, Google Slides, Prezi or video for your AUTHOR STUDY
Biographical information about the author
Analyses of 4 pieces of writing by Stephen King based on Elements of Fiction, Poetry, and/or Drama
Remember to include a Works Cited slide (MLA format) for all sources used and quoted in the presentation
Grade is based upon content and presentation skills
Here are the 4 pieces of writing that I would like you to use.
King, Stephen. “The Shining.” Google Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008,
books.google.com/books/about/The_Shining.html?id=8VnJLu3AvvQ. Accessed 17 Mar. 2024.
King, Stephen. “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.” Google Books, Simon and
Schuster, 2020, books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Jmv6DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=%22Rita+Hayworth+and+Shawshank+Redemption&ots=GXXF5ciXRI&sig=Bt254V8Dtk72Q6PRmq1A11aMWxs. Accessed 17 Mar. 2024.
King, Stephen. Memory. 2006,
images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/aplus/memory.pdf.
King, Stephen. “Different Seasons: Four Novellas.” Google Books, Simon and Schuster,
2016, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Different_Seasons/lp5vDgAAQBAJ?hl=en
Please provide 4 additional sources that provide background information on Stephen king and his writings.
Please make sure to include the following information: Authors background, authors qualifications, scope/main purpose of the pieces, the relation to other works, any biases/standpoints that you notice from the author, who the audience is, summary of content, usefulness of content, and any other information you find necessary. Please make sure that the PowerPoint is worth 6 minutes of information.
Thesis: The presence of socio-political satire in literature has evolved along shifts in attitudes like status, racial roles, and gender representation from the 14th century to present day.
Sources:
14th-19th C
“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 1387-1400
“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift 1729
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 1726
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 1895
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Modern day examples (20-21st C): Explores themes like racism, homosexuality, gender inequality
“Satire Is Dying Because the Internet Is Killing It” by Arwa Mahdawi 2014
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 1996
The Sellout by Paul Beatty 2015
Animal Farm by George Orwell 1945
Les invités by Pierre Assouline 2009
References:
The Simpsons
Saturday Night Live SNL
The New Yorker – Political Satire (US)
The Private Eye (UK)
Le Canard enchaîné (FR)
AlHudood (Middle East)
Reference & include political satirical cartoons
Plan:
Intro
BP 1 Socio-political satire in medieval literature
Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” from The Canterbury Tales.
Analysis of satire targeting gender roles, marriage, and societal norms.
Connection to the socio-political context of the medieval period.
BP 2 Enlightenment and satirical enlightenment
Examination of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” and Gulliver’s Travels.
Exploration of Swift’s satirical commentary on social issues such as poverty, colonization, and human nature.
Consideration of the Enlightenment period’s impact on socio-political satire.
BP 3 Victorian society and satirical commentary
Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Discussion of satire regarding societal hypocrisy, class divisions, and gender roles in Victorian England.
Comparison of satirical techniques employed by Wilde and Austen.
BP 4 Modern socio-political satire
Analysis of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and its exploration of race relations and identity in contemporary America.
Exploration of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and its critique of consumerism and masculinity.
Consideration of Pierre Assouline’s Les invités and its satirical portrayal of contemporary French society.
BP 5 Influence of technology and media on contemporary satire
Discussion of the impact of the internet and media on contemporary satire.
Analysis of Arwa Mahdawi’s article “Satire Is Dying Because the Internet Is Killing It” and its commentary on the challenges facing modern satire.
Consideration of television shows like The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live and their role in shaping contemporary socio-political satire
Rise of satirical news websites
Conclusion
Your final paper should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins. (no fewer than 800 words). You will have a thesis statement (in the argument style described in the video lecture on “Writing A Great College Paper). You are not allowed to use outside sources (including ChatGPT) in this paper; your argument will be your own original interpretation of the texts. Any paper that does not completely answer your chosen prompt, addressing both texts, will receive a 0 for the assignment. ( DO NOT USE ANY OUTSIDE SOURCES)
Construct an argument about the meaning of suffering in Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry From Africa” and Kofi Awoonor’s “Lament of the Silent Sisters.” In your thesis statement, you should compare and contrast the meaning of suffering in the two works. You must use quotations from the works as evidence for your claims. You should have no fewer than 400 words about “Lament of the Silent Sisters.”
Lament of the Silent Sisters
BY KOFI AWOONOR
For Chris Okigbo, the well-known poet, killed in 1967 in the Nigerian civil war.
That night he came home, he came unto me
at the cold hour of the night
Smelling of corn wine in the dawn dew.
He stretched his hand and covered my forehead.
There was a moon beam sparking rays in particles.
The drummer boys had got themselves a goat.
The din was high in the wail of the harvest moon.
The flood was up gurgling through the fields
Birth waters swimming in floods of new blood.
He whispered my name in far echo
Sky-wailing into a million sounds
across my shores. His voice still bore
the sadness of the wanderer
To wail and die in a soft lonely echo
That echo I heard long ago
In the fall of night over my river,
In the distant rustle of reeds
At growth in the strength of my river.
Once upon an evening I heard it
Strung clear as the gong of the drummer boys
Bright burnished like the glint edge of
the paschal knife, ready anxious to cut
My cords and enter into my fields.
I was still a dream then
Carried by the flimsy whiffs
Of sweet scents borne aloft on the vision
Of my coming flood
That will bear me slowly and gently
Into his world of smiles and smells.
He was not very gentle with me
But I did not complain. The thrust
was hard and angry, severing the tiny cord
Shattering the closed gates of raffia
Gathering at its eye the reeds to feed my fishes.
My flood had not risen.
The canoe carried on the strength
Of his man rowed steep down my river
into a tumultuous eternity
Of green hills and mountains
That reeled and rolled to the river shore
To clasp and bear me away.
Then the floodgates opened
for justice to cleanse to purify
My evening of awakening
In the turbulence of his triumph
Into the bright evening of my rebirth.
The birth was tedious
The pangs were bitter
Into the bright evening I rushed
Crying I have found him I have found him.
He stood there rustling in the wind
The desire to go was written large upon his forehead.
I was not ready for his coming
I was not ready for his loneliness,
for his sad solitude against the rustling wind.
I was not ready for his entrance
Into my fields and shores of my river.
The entrance of raffia was closed
closed against his lonely solitude.
He stood beneath my entrance
In his approach I knew the steps he took
Like the departing Lazarus
Marching toward his grave.
I was not ready.
The flood was gurgling at his estuary
swimming within me birth waters
warmed by his coming. He was silent
mute against the rushing of the wind
to cry and die for his homeland.
My flood had not risen then.
Across my vastness he marched into the wind
his arms folded upon his chest,
his eyes searching for the gates
that will open his amulets
to snatch and wear his talisman of hope.
He marched into the wind
howling through door posts
to catch the boatman at the dawn point.
to ferry him across my river.
But I was not ready.
My hands stretched to cover his
in the darkness, to cover his eyes
in the agony of his solitude
to call him names I knew
to put the dressing from my womb
upon his cudgel scars,
to hold his hand in the clasp of nightfall.
He was mute; the wind had stopped rustling
He was erect like the totem pole of his household
He burned and blazed for an ending
Then I was ready. As he pierced my agony
with his cry, my river burst into flood.
My shores reeled and rolled
to the world’s end, where they say
at the world’s end the graves are green.
A Far Cry from Africa
Derek Walcott
1930 –
2017
A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt
Of Africa. Kikuyu, quick as flies,
Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt.
Corpses are scattered through a paradise.
Only the worm, colonel of carrion, cries:
“Waste no compassion on these separate dead!”
Statistics justify and scholars seize
The salients of colonial policy.
What is that to the white child hacked in bed?
To savages, expendable as Jews?
Threshed out by beaters, the long rushes break
In a white dust of ibises whose cries
Have wheeled since civilization’s dawn
From the parched river or beast-teeming plain.
The violence of beast on beast is read
As natural law, but upright man
Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.
Delirious as these worried beasts, his wars
Dance to the tightened carcass of a drum,
While he calls courage still that native dread
Of the white peace contracted by the dead.
Again brutish necessity wipes its hands
Upon the napkin of a dirty cause, again
A waste of our compassion, as with Spain,
The gorilla wrestles with the superman.
I who am poisoned with the blood of both,
Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?
I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?
Betray them both, or give back what they give?
How can I face such slaughter and be cool?
How can I turn from Africa and live?
Essay 2 Assignment: Heart of Darkness, The Tempest, and The Epic of Gilgamesh
Essay 2 assignment builds on the analytical skills you displayed in your Gilgamesh Essay (Essay 1), asking you to deepen those skills by applying two lenses to the readings. We’re also adding in our Weeks 5 and 6 reading, Heart of Darkness, a key piece of 20th-century literature. Exploring the intersection of two different themes is an opportunity to narrow your scope even further, giving you a stronger foundation for analysis.
Please complete each of the following steps for your Essay #2:
1. Select two of the themes of postcolonial theory that you would like to explore. These will be
the lenses through which you look at the literature. You’re more than welcome to stick to the
same initial theme you chose for Essay 1 and add in a new one, or you could choose two entirely new themes to apply.
2.Describe the lenses and explain how/why they represent a promising combination.
Why are they worthwhile to discuss in relationship to one another? How do they inform one another? How does the combination limit your approach in helpful, constructive, or opportune ways? Be specific.
3. Apply that lens to The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Tempest, and Heart of Darkness.
This should be the bulk of your writing. How do the themes function within the story? What specific moments in the story are valuable for drawing deeper insights about the intersection between the two themes? Include balanced textual evidence (direct quotes from all three stories!), not simply general statements about the plot elements or characters. Also, explain the significance of each quote you use – how it ties into your analysis and answers to my questions. Important: ultimately, your analysis must include these two questions: What do these three stories reveal about how these themes combine? What insights can we take from the readings that apply beyond the literature? Do not turn in your essay without answering these questions.
Note: For this assignment, you must use proper APA citation style (see Owl Purdue online for APA style help), have: a narrow, arguable thesis statement, separate supporting ideas with topic sentences/transitions, and have a dynamic conclusion.
For success in this essay, since it has numerous steps and asks many questions, I recommend printing the assignment sheet out and having it next to you as you write and revise your essay so that it can serve as a checklist and guide. As you complete each step and answer each question, literally physically check off each item. That way you can make sure that you are completing everything that I am asking you to include in your essay.
4. Before you turn in your essay, carefully go through the list and your essay and make any necessary adjustments. Read it aloud to catch any mistakes. Read it to another person to catch any additional errors. Double space your essay and give it a title (do not put: Essay #2). Your essay should be at least three pages long not including a Reference Page (also required). Remember, if you need help with how to do in-text citation, a reference page, etc., and all things APA style, go to Owl Purdue online.
Start on your essay now. Work on it every day so that you will make progress on it and will not be stressed before the due date, trying to get it done with not enough time to do a good job on it. You’ve got this!