The Black Cat
Your 4 page paper will be due on 11/18. It will be 4 complete pages, 12 font, double-spaced, in MLA style. You will have a choice of 6 topics:
1. Compare Claggert in “Billy Budd” with the narrator of “The Black Cat”. How are both figures of evil and self-loathing? 2. Show how Whitman in “Song of Myself” uses ideas from Emerson to depict what America means? How does he define an American? 3. Take any 2 narrators from Poe to show how they are unreliable. 4. Compare how death is depicted in Thanatopsis to how it is depicted in Dickinson’s poem #479.
5. Discuss how Hawthorne uses the coming of age theme in “Young Goodman Brown” and “My Kinsman, Major Molineux.”
6. Compare Section 11 of “Song of Myself” to Dickinson’s poem # 269.
Your 4 page paper will be due on 11/18. It will be 4 complete pages, 12 font, double-spaced, in MLA style. You will have a choice of 6 topics:
1. Compare Claggert in “Billy Budd” with the narrator of “The Black Cat”. How are both figures of evil and self-loathing? 2. Show how Whitman in “Song of Myself” uses ideas from Emerson to depict what America means? How does he define an American? 3. Take any 2 narrators from Poe to show how they are unreliable. 4. Compare how death is depicted in Thanatopsis to how it is depicted in Dickinson’s poem #479.
5. Discuss how Hawthorne uses the coming of age theme in “Young Goodman Brown” and “My Kinsman, Major Molineux.”
6. Compare Section 11 of “Song of Myself” to Dickinson’s poem # 269.
