literature essay 10
Write an essay of approximately 500-750 words explaining your position on one of the two claims given. Use a total of four texts from our syllabus to support your claims. (Don’t forget to include brief quotes with parenthetical citations!) Two of the texts must be from the first seven weeks (prior to our midterm). You may have up to 2 hours to complete your essay.
1. Social roles and expectations make equal relationships between men and women virtually impossible.
2. Supernatural or magical forces in literature rarely solve human problems: they produce at least as much harm as good.
Reading for EH 201 Western World Literature
Moliere: Tartuffe
Coleridge: “Christabel,†“Kubla Khanâ€
Byron: “The Girl of Cadiz,†“She walks in beauty,†“Stanzas to Augusta,†“When we two partedâ€
Keats: “The Eve of St. Agnes, “La Belle Dame sans Merci,†“When I have fears that I may
cease to beâ€
Poe: “Annabel Leeâ€
Pushkin: “The Bronze Horsemanâ€
Goethe:
Faust, Part One
Tolstoy:
The Kreutzer Sonata
Calvino: “The Parrot,†“The Canary Prince,†Quack, Quack! Stick to My Backâ€
Perrault: “Cinderellaâ€
Grimms: “Cinderellaâ€
Ahmed-ud-Din, “Cinderellaâ€
Broumas, “Cinderellaâ€
Hay, “Interviewâ€
Hussey, “Cinderella Liberatedâ€
Plath, “Cinderellaâ€
Sexton, “Cinderellaâ€
Yolen, “Knivesâ€