Required Length: At a minimum, the essay ends somewhere on the fifth and the works cited page comprises the sixth page.
Genereal instructions: Present your answer to the central question as an interpretive thesis, included in an introductory paragraph. Focus your response on the text (or texts) named in the prompt you have chosen. Persuasively support your thesis through close reading (careful analysis of specific textual details).
Observations about the text are useful as evidence; paraphrases are not the same as interpretations. If you attempt to summarize or even to analyze too many parts of your chosentext, you will almost certainly do too little close reading and analysis of specific details to be successful. Make sure that you are confining yourself to a specific interpretive focus.
Prompt:
Choose two of the characters from the list at the end of this question and compare whatthe texts that tell their stories do to make the two characters you chose appear to be great or to be heroic.3 Use your analysis to support a claim about what heroism or greatness is. Why is it significant that heroism or greatness can be defined this way? The characters I chose from are BRUTUS and PWYLL
Articles for characters:
https://earlybritishlit.pressbooks.com/chapter/geo… (Brutus)
https://earlybritishlit.pressbooks.com/chapter/fou… (Pwyll)
Brutus [using only evidence from the portions of History of the Kings of Britain that were assigned readings]
Pwyll [using only evidence from the portions of the Mabinogi that were assigned readings]
The ESSAY WILL BE STRONGEST IF IT ENGAGES PRIMARILY WITH THE BOLDED QUESTION.
you are presented with a “why does it matter” question. The best thesis sentences will answer this question but will not simply say “it matters because X.” Suppose that your draft thesis sentence is: It matters that knowledge can be defined as beauty because this shows that gaining it requires thinking outside the box
Research and Secondary Sources: This paper does not require you to do any research, and I strongly recommend that you not take on any hunting for explanations or published criticism. However, should you make use in any way (even just reading them to help your thinking) of any sources (e.g. a Wikipedia entry, a paraphrase, a work of literary criticism), then you absolutely must document your use in accordance with MLA citation practices. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism and will earn a zero for your assignment. A works cited page is required
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