You will write an essay on any one topic (about 500-600 words) from the list provided in the exam. Make sure your response has a clear purpose, and is well- structured with an introduction, a thesis with major points, organized paragraphs with strong transitions, and a conclusion. Your response will be marked both on content and mechanics.
1. Discuss the relevance of any two symbolic elements to the theme/themes in each of the following texts: Reid’s Foe and Glaspell’s “Trifles”.
2. Some texts, studied in the class, have unreliable narrators as main characters. Consider any two texts and discuss the relevance of the unreliability of each character to the theme of the respective work. Possible texts are “The Cask of Amontillado”, “My Last Duchess”, “The Yellow Wall-Paper”, “Trifles”, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”.
3. The various physical attributes of setting within “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Yellow Wall-Paper”, “Ulysses”, Foe, and “Trilles” create the literary work’s atmosphere or mood. Consider any two of the above-mentioned works, and discuss how the setting helps to convey the central theme of each of the work.
4. Consider any two literary works studied in the course, and discuss the relevance of each work’s ending to the theme of that work.
5. Discuss multiple meanings within the titles of any two of the following texts: “The Yellow Wall-Paper”; “Trifles”; “My Last Duchess”; “Do not go gentle into that good night”; “The Story of an Hour”; Foe. To what extent does the title support the main theme of the text or is in conflict with it?