Select a novel or play and, focusing on one symbol, write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot. You may choose from one of these works or another novel or play As I Lay Dying The Awakening Beloved Bleak House Cat’s Eye The Cherry Orchard The Color Purple Crime and Punishment The Crossing The Crucible A Doll House Equus A Farewell to Arms Fences The Glass Menagerie The Golden Bowl The Grapes of Wrath The Hairy Ape Heart of Darkness Invisible Man Jude the Obscure The Kite Runner Lady Windermere’s Fan Macbeth Madame Bovary The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Moby-Dick The Namesake Nineteen Eighty-four Our Town The Plague A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Prayer for Owen Meany A Raisin in the Sun Reservation Blues Snow A Streetcar Named Desire Things Fall Apart Waiting for Godot Wise Blood The Women of Brewster Place
