Synthesis Paper – ENG 2060, Great Books Format: each paper must have a title; pa
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Synthesis Paper – ENG 2060, Great Books
Format:
each paper must have a title; pages must be numbered (first page
excepted); secondary sources are not required, but if any are used they
must be documented (with a works cited and parenthetical documentation,
MLA style). Try to keep in the present tense when you are discussing a
literary work, past tense when you are referring to a historical or
biographical event. Make sure you use quotations from the relevant texts
to support your points. Please download your final publishs on AsULearn.
Instructions:
Your paper must focus on texts from our reading list (you can also include other materials). Select one of the themes listed below and two or three
of the texts assigned in this course. Then write a paper 3 pages single
spaced in which you explain how each of the two or three texts—they
must be by at least two authors—explores the selected theme, comparing
and contrasting the authors’ approaches. For example, if you chose the
doppelgänger/double theme, you might select Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson,” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
or “Markheim” (or just two of these texts). In your introduction, you
could explain in general terms the literary significances of
doppelgängers or doubles (e.g., what they can symbolize or their
psychological implications) and then explain how each text develops this
theme in similar and/or different ways. Then, in your conclusion, you
could identify overall thematic patterns and key innovations made by
each author. When discussing texts published during different eras, you
might also consult secondary sources and provide some historical context
(e.g., the influence of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theories on the
depiction of Mr. Hyde or on The Island of Doctor Moreau; the influence of the New Woman stereotype on the female vampires in Dracula). This historical approach is, however, optional. Here is the list of themes from which you may choose:
1) the doppelgänger or double
2) the monster (could be moral and/or physical monsters)
3) the femme fatale (Beatrice Rappaccini, Ligeia, Carmilla, the three female vampires in Dracula, and the vampirized Lucy Westenra can be viewed as femmes fatales)
4)
the figure of the Gothic scientist (Aylmer, Rappaccini, Baglioni,
Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Moreau, Van Helsing, Dr. Seward)
5) the Gothic villain
6) the Gothic heroine
7)
portrayals of mental illness (the narrator of “Ligeia,” Roderick Usher,
William Wilson, the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Renfield in Dracula, Eleanor Vance in The Haunting of Hill House)
8) the supernatural
9) Gothic buildings
10) vampires.
