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Kate Chopin
The
Awakening Essay Prompt
on a Literary Element: Note
the changes in social or political attitudes that are advocated in this
novel. Then analyze the techniques that the author uses to influence
the reader's views. Avoid plot summary. Do not write
about a film or television program. 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. Another
Essay Prompt on a Literary Element:
This work highlights the values of a culture or a society by using characters
who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender, race,
class, or creed. Write a well-organized essay that analyzes how the
alienation of one character reveals the surrounding society's assumptions
and moral values. 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--not necessarily the protagonist--is pulled in
conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations,
or influences. Write a well-organized essay that identifies each
conflicting force and explain how this plaguing conflict within one character
illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. |