E. M. Forster
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
Analyze how characters in the story are affected by society's standards.
1975 Open Question: Show how the conventional or stereo-typed character
is used to accomplish the author's purpose.
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Passage to India Essay
Prompt on a Literary Element: Show how
the author developes the significance of the title through the use of such
devices as contrast, repetition, allusion, and point of view. Another
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
Describe the major differences and similarites in a sequence of parallel
or recurring events that occur in this play and discuss the significance
of such events. Do not merely summarize the plot. Another
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
Some of the most significant events in this work is mental or psychological;
for example, awakenings, discoveries, changes in consciousness. In
a well-organized essay, describe how the author manages to gives these
internal events the sense of excitement, suspense, and climax usually associated
with external events. Do not merely summarize the plot. Another
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
This novel uses contratsting places (for example, two countries, two cities
or towns, two houses, or the land and the sea) to represent opposed forces
or ideas that arecentral to the meaning of the work. Write an essay
explaining how the places differ, what each place represents, and how their
contrast contributes to the overall meaning of the work. Another
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
In this novel, a confidant (male) or a confidante (female)
is used to be present when the hero or heroine needs a sympathetic listener
to confide in. Frequently, as Henry James puts it, this friend or
relative of the protagonist can be as much "the reader's friend as the
protagonist's." Write an essay in which you discuss the various ways
this character functions in the work.
Howards
End
Two free-thinking sisters, Helen and Margaret, lose their house
and are bequeathed Howard's End by Ruth Wilcox, who has befriended Margaret.
Ruth's family, however, has other plans, and destroys the will without
telling the sisters. Mr. Wilcox, now a widow, marries Margaret. When Helen
becomes pregnant and refuses to name the father, Mr. Wilcox and Margaret
differ in their opinion on how to help her.
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Room With A View
A comedy of manners about a group of English upper-class on holiday
in Italy, detailing their response to Italy and to one another.
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