Analyze key characters from one or more plays in this book. What motivates these characters? Point to specific moments in the play to make your case.

Write a short essay (750 words) that defends a thesis you developed through a close critical reading/analysis of one (or two) literary works listed on the syllabus and supported by at least two secondary sources. Do not confuse critical analysis with plot summary; the goal is to develop, sustain, and advance a thesis based on a critique of the primary […]

Compare and Contrast the following plays and filmsThe God of Carnage. Yasmina Reza. Film: Carnage. Roman Polanski, 2011 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee. Film: Mike Nichols, 1966

Write on each of the five prompts below, a total of 2,000 words, approximately 7 double-spaced pages (see word count for each). The organizational (or architectural) design of a long paper on one topic is far more daunting. This project is a chance for you to demonstrate your ideas and knowledge of all the plays and watching all the films. […]

Examine how the situations are different yet the same by examining the plays Shakespeare’s Othello and in Ibsen’s A Doll House and the two characters Iago and Krogstad.

In Shakespeare’s Othello and in Ibsen’s A Doll House, students encounter two literary villains, Iago and Krogstad, who aid in the destruction of marriages. Although both characters perform the same deed, the results prove quite different in changing the outcome of the play. By examining these two plays and the two characters, examine how the situations are different yet the […]