Again, a short paper. Four or five pages, and done for intellectual enjoyment, but with conceptual and grammatical precision, too.
Written with the same flair you’ve brought to your daily writing and questions.
To be done on your own, no collaboration. No plagiarism. No shmooping, sparknoting, etc.
Feel free to use any ideas that have arisen in discussions in class.
Give your paper a title, NUMBER YOUR PAGES, double-space.
Confine yourself to the works of the second half of the
semester: MB, TRIFLES, SND, DKH, GWS, TG, NUMBER, GROUNDHOG..
Address something very specific, comparable, and keenly intellectually interesting to you in two of our works of the second half of the semester.
Possibilities abound .Look back over your questions and commentaries for suggestions. Below are a few possibilities, but note that they’re very general: they’d need to be made quite specific to succeed in so short an essay. For example “Symbols of Self in Trifles and SND” might concentrate on the birdcage and the trunk or on the canary and the Chinese lantern, probing them for their subtleties, their nuances, their meaning.
What follows are possibilities, suggestions. You’ll most likely already have something in mind from our work together in class.
Reversal of the Masculine and Feminine in MB and GWS.
Toxic Masculinity in DKH and SND.
Self as Actor in SND and MB.
Self-deception and Self-awakening in DKH and Groundhog.
Feminist Vision in Trifles and TG.
Metadrama in MB and SND.
Technology and the Erasure of Self in Number and Groundhog.
Symbols of Self in Trifles and SND.
Consequences of the Fall of the Absolute (God) in GWS and MB.
Breaking the Fourth Wall in GWS and MB.
Problems of Modern Identity in Number and MB.
[Btw, note that by convention the titles of plays and films are italicized.]
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