For my mid term paper I would like to discuss prompt seven which asks to examine the role of identity in multiple texts and then answer question such as "Is identity stagnate?" or "Is it something you can change?" I hope in my essay to show that throughout the semester we have dealt with several characters whose identity has adapted for certain situations. The wording of my thesis is a work in project but I have a pretty clear idea of what I hope to prove.
The first paragraph will be the introduction, but of course then I would like to discuss the following characters as page space permits:
1) Grandison- he played a part of a loyal slave, which ended up not being true
2)Dick- how his identity becomes a question at the end of the story for perhaps he was not as block headed as he seemed
3)Calixta - one paragraph focusing on her role as a wife and another focusing on her role as a women
4) Little boy in "Chickamauga"- he was a so timid at beginning of soldier but became a fearless leader
5) The soldiers in a "Private History"- They too had a similar experience with having to become the identity of soldiers even though they were just young men with no real clue.
I hope this works! This is my first time writing a literary comparison paper so I wanted to do something straight forward. It seems like this type of essay will use a whole different set of skills then your basic research paper. But I am excited to learn 'um!
This sounds great! One suggestion that I have is that you perhaps put your thesis on hold until you've done the analysis of each specific character (and you've got some good examples). That might allow you a little more freedom in exploring how identity works instead of having to "fit" each example into a preformed frame.
ReplyDeleteIt might be a little more difficult this way, but I think by the end you'll have a more nuanced and true argument.