Emily Bronte
Biography
Wuthering
Heights
Classic love, hatred, betrayal, revenge, and
death story of Heathcliff, an orphan who finds refuge at Thrushcross Grange
and falls for Catherine, his adopted father's daughter.
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
Show how the conventional or stereo-typed character is used to accomplish
the author's purpose. Wuthering
Heights 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:
Choose a complex character from this play who might--on the bisis of the
character's actions alone--be considered evil or immoral. Then write
a well-organized essay that analyzes how and why the full presentation
of the character in the play makes us react more sympathetically than we
otherwise might. Avoid plot summary. Another
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
Write a well-organized essay that analyzes how this novel confronts the
reader with a scene or scenes of violence. Be sure to explain how
these scenes contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole. Avoid
plot summary. Another Essay Prompt on
a Literary Element: Select an important
character in this novel who is a villain. Then, in a well-organized
essay, analyze the nature of ther character's villainy and show how it
enhances the meaning of the work . Avoid plot summary. Do not
base your essay on a work that you know about only from having seen a television
or movie production of it. Another
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
In questioning the value of literary realism, Flannery O'Connor has written,
"I am interested in making a good case for distortion because I am coming
to believe that it is the only way to make people see." Write an
essay in which you "make a good case for distortion," as distinct from
literary realism. Analyze how important elements of this novel are "distorted"
and explain how these distortions contribute to the effectiveness of this
novel. Avoid plot summary. Another
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
This novel depicts a conflict between a parent or parental figure and a
son or daughter. Write a well-organized essay that analyzes the sources
of the conflict and explain how the conflict contributes to the meaning
of the work as a whole. Avoid plot summary. 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. Another
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
This work offers a happy ending through moral development. Write
a well-organized essay that identifies the moral reconciliation evident
on the ending and analyze its significance in the work as a whole. Another
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
This novel includes a scene of social occasion--for example, weddings,
funerals, parties--which reveals the values of the characters and the society
in which they live. In a focused essay, discuss the contribution
the scene makes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Another
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
In this novel, a character's apparent madness or irrational behavior plays
an important role. Write a well-organized essay in which you explain
what this eccentric behavior consists of and how it might be judged reasonable.
Explain the significance of the madness to the work as a whole. |