INSTRUCTIONS: Write essays in response to EACH of the following questions. Each essay should be approximately 500 to 700 words long. Please (1) type or word-process, (2) double space, and (3) note the following points carefully:
Make sure each essay begins with a clearly written and developed thesis paragraph that addresses the topic or question, and that the body of your essay cites and analyzes details from the play or plays you discuss in order to explain and back up your thesis.
Avoid plot summary; avoid duplicating ideas that may have come up in class discussion.
As always, I’m looking for your opinion, based on your reading of the plays, and using the approaches we’ve discussed over the term.
I suggest taking about an hour to complete each essay—after, of course having read over the text or texts and thought about your thesis.
Obviously, you may consult the texts mentioned in each question topic and class notes.
Once you’ve completed the entire essay exam, please hand it in to me between 1:30 and 3:30 PM on Monday, May 9, 2022,
1. Write an essay EITHER about the relations between Shylock and Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice OR Lucy and Brazil in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play OR Nagg and Nell in Beckett’s Endgame. Whichever pair of characters you choose, explore their similarities and differences; what do you see as most essential to the relationship between each pair, and what, if anything, do they have in common beneath their differences?
2. Sophocles’s Oedipus and Kan’ami’s Mat’sukaze could be considered tragic, but they’re very different. How? Discuss this question by considering the role of Apollo, Teiresias, and the oracle in Oedipus, and the very different Buddhist framework that makes for tragedy in Mat’sukaze.
instructions that are bold and underlined are very important to the assignment.
Thank you very much
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