This is a final essay for my intro to Literature class

Date Posted: 27/11/2019

Category: English
Due Date: 02/12/2019

Instruction

Intro to Literature Final Essay Throughout the semester we looked at several different kinds of Modernist texts as well as their contemporary counterparts. For this final paper, you’ll want to pick two different texts we’ve read during the course and compare/contrast them. In 5-7 pages, try to create an over-arching thesis focusing on one specific element or idea and reveal how the two texts you’ve chosen confront, represent, or handle these issues. This is the comparison that connects them with some theme/concept. But more importantly, once you detect what they share, we want to then contrast them—how do they look at the theme differently and what does this mean. For instance, some elements that could be focused upon are gender, death, memory, grief, feminism, race, identity, morality, war, marriage, class, masculinity, corruption, etc. These are all, of course, themes but we want to look at a specific moment or scene or image that the two texts share that allows us to see why you’re comparing these two texts. Think about connections between the texts so we can see that you’re not just randomly selecting two novels, but there is something specific that makes you see an unconscious conversation occurring. But then you want to look at is how each text, based on this connective element, confronts an idea differently (which will require you to interpret each text using specific textual evidence). And when we say different, we’re not saying they are contradictory or that one is better/worse. We just want to see contrasts between how two different authors confront an issue. So once you 1) detect a connection they share and how, and then 2) interpret what each text is doing and how it connects to theme, then 3) how they’re different in their approach, and finally 4) analyze what this means. What is significant about this difference? What meaning can be derived from this contrast? How are we to read these differences and why? What new and original conclusion can we come to as a result in terms of a larger analysis? One way do this is to also look at technique: style, point of view, experimentation, etc. This is a way to also uncover and analyze how a text is approaching the concept or theme differently from the other text. Again, choose two texts and only one central element (sometimes comparing an older and newer work may help to make the contrast more evidence). Don’t try to cover everything at once, but instead choose one concept and really dig in deep and explore/interpret the larger meaning. For instance, say you want to look at how poverty is addressed. Pick one text and explain how the writer is confronting this issue in the text—interpret a moment from the text in terms of how poverty is being represented and how you know that through evidence. Do the same for the next text. Then in the end, what are the authors telling us about poverty as a whole (that it’s inherited or a cycle in our system—some larger cultural comment) and why you think they’re saying this? Think about a point of comparison, then contrast, and then try to synthesize them in a new way. Your papers should have a clear introduction, body and conclusion. I will grade primarily on content, but also to some extent on organization, grammar, and proper citation.

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