Select a literary work that we have read in this course, and select a point to argue or analyze. You may argue that a character is a hero, that the gods play a major role, that the animal symbolism is significant, that the character’s harmatia is arrogance, that the women are treated as objects, that irony pervades the literary work, etc.
PURPOSE: To analyze a piece of literature from a perspective of your choice. This perspective becomes your argument, your thesis statement.
THESIS STATEMENT: The paper will have a clear succinct thesis statement, and it will prove the thesis with quotations from the literary text and explanations of how each quotation supports the thesis.
QUOTATIONS: When quoting from the text to prove your point, you must use the textbook for our class—The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 4th edition—and indicate the page number of the quotation in parentheses. You must use a minimum of 8 quotations from the literature to support your thesis.
After each quotation, place in parentheses the author’s last name and the page number from The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 4th ed., from which you took the quotation. For example, (Sophocles 720). Note: there is NO comma between the author’s name and the page #.
