Explore the similarities and differences in how two literary works treat one or more common themes.

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- 5 pages mla style paper

-Your goal, in discussing how the two texts you select represent the shared theme, is to support an argument about what the authors’ similar and/or different treatments of the theme help us to understand about the theme.

the two stories that i have chosen are; - " story of an hour" and "the yellow wallpaper"

- the common theme is ( women suffrage) but if you can find more common themes that will make it easier to write the five pages.

- thesis statement which explains how the way in which the two texts treat a shared theme says something about the ways the theme can be

represented in fiction.

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1- the essay description( please read carefully)

2- a powerpoint that helps understanding how to compare the two themes " should be helpful to skim through it"

3- the two stories are in one file in the same order that i mentioned them.



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Walters-LIT2000 Essay 3: Thematic Analysis Due Date: November 28 Assignment: Explore the similarities and differences in how two literary works treat one or more common themes. You may choose from among any of the short stories, poems, plays, or novels we have read this semester. Please write about only two texts, though. Your goal, in discussing how the two texts you select represent the shared theme, is to support an argument about what the authors’ similar and/or different treatments of the theme help us to understand about the theme. Criteria for Evaluation • • • • • A thesis statement which explains how the way in which the two texts treat a shared theme says something about the ways the theme can be represented in fiction. A strategic close reading of specific passages—at least one passage per text—which provides key quotations in support of the thesis. Recall how we defined “passage” for Essay 1. Clear transitions which explain the relationship (similarities or differences) between how the two works treat the shared theme. How you use transitions depends in part on how you choose to organize your paper. What you should not do under any circumstances is to organize your paper into two blocks that deal with the two scenes separately without ever explaining how they may connect with each other. Interpretive statements in your own words explaining how the evidence from the texts supports your claims. Minimal plot summary (i.e., the writer spends only a few words on telling us what is happening, and devotes most of her/his space to explaining why it matters). Grading Essay 3 is worth 250 points. Format Essay 3 should be 5-7 pages in length. Please type your papers in 12-point Times New Roman font; use 1-inch margins. Essay 1: Putting Literary Texts into Conversation CONSTRUCTING A THESIS Identifying a Thesis Concern  Remember that this is not a compare and contrast essay, so you aren’t looking for a multitude of similarities and differences.  Instead, you want to locate one issue that the two texts have in common.  Locate evidence first: for a paper of this length, you’re going to need at least 3 compelling passages from each text that provide evidence for this connection. Types of Thesis: Similarity  You could choose to focus your essay around one striking similarity between the two texts.  However, focusing on similarity alone comes with an increased burden on your connection being nonobvious.  Further, you need to do some extra work in driving a “so what” argument forward. It’s not enough to say both texts do X, and here are A, B, and C examples of both texts doing X. Similarity Thesis: Thematic Concerns ❑ Plot summary (bad) ❑ Both Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym are about people who get lost at sea. ❑ Edited to connect plot to theme: ❑ Both Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym depict the sea as a space unbound by the laws of life on land. Similarity Theses: Form/Literary Term Approach ❑ Weak Connection: ❑ Both Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym are stories told through first-person narrators. ❑ Improved Connection: Tying form to theme ❑ Through their use of first-person narration, both The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Arthur Gordon Pym suggest that the act of telling stories is a way of making sense of them. Difference within Similarity  A difference within similarity thesis begins with similarity as its starting point. It establishes a common ground between the two texts.  The difference is then derived from that similarity  The driving part of this argument is thus the difference; the similarity is the more straightforward aspect.  Your essay should therefore mirror this relationship, with your initial body paragraphs foregrounded similarity before you complicate things by moving to difference. Difference + Similarity versus Difference within Similarity ❑ Difference is not within the Similarity ❑ Both Arthur Gordon Pym and Rime of the Ancient Mariner are stories about the sea, but Coleridge tells his story through a poem and Poe tells his through a novel. ❑ Difference is still not within Similarity ❑ Both Arthur Gordon Pym and Rime of the Ancient Mariner are stories about the sea, but Coleridge’s centers around a mysterious albatross while Poe’s narrator encounters a mysterious native tribe. ❑ Difference within Similarity: ❑ The narrators of Arthur Gordon Pym and Rime of the Ancient Mariner both lose themselves at sea, but while Rime is focused on the loss of self in the face of isolation, Pym reflects on the loss of self when confronted with other-ness. Difference within Similarity: Form + Historicizing ❑ Weak Connection: ❑ Though both Arthur Gordon Pym and Rime of the Ancient Mariner are told through first-person narrators, the narrator of Rime tells his story orally, while the narrator of Pym’s account tells his through writing. ❑ Improved: Connecting Form to History/Literary Context ❑ Though both Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) and Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) are told through first-person narrators, Pym’s pseudo-factual account represents a shift in the way the contemporary reading public consumed travel narratives. Similarity within Difference ❑ This type of thesis grounds itself by noting difference. ❑ The move of this thesis is to set up why a reader may not think these two texts share a common concern. ❑ The thesis then moves to similarity, presenting that similarity as unexpected. ❑ With this type of thesis your body paragraphs would develop your argument by foregrounding difference and then complicating with similarity. Similarity within Difference-Genre/Literary Terms ❑ Similarity within Difference: Weak Genre Connection ❑ While Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written as a poem and Arthur Gordon Pym is written as a novel, they both are about character’s telling stories. ❑ Similarity within Difference: Meaningful Genre Connection ❑ Although Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Arthur Gordon Pym are written through different literary genres (poetry and novel), they both portray the sailor’s yarn as a powerful literary genre unto itself. Similarity within Difference-Thematic Connection ❑ Similarity within Difference: Clumsy and Vague Thematic Connection ❑ Both Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Coleridge’s Rime share a common theme about the ship’s relationship to social order, but they have contrasting ideas about that theme. ❑ Similarity within Difference: A More Subtle Approach to establishing similarity and difference ❑ Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is interested in the ways the ship acts as an escape from social order, whereas Coleridge's Rime seems to suggest that the ship only reinforces social constructs. Similarity within Difference: Contextualization ❑ Similarity within Difference: Vague Contextualization ❑ While The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym was written forty years after The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, they actually have a lot in common. ❑ Similarity within Difference: Specific Contextualization ❑ While The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym was written forty years after The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Poe’s narrative continues to emphasize the sea as an unknown space. Some Notes about Thesis Statements in the Context of the Paper as a Whole ❑ They change. You may have a perfectly good sounding thesis to begin with; however, you might find that your writing goes in a different direction. ❑ In this case, always allow your analysis to shape your thesis; do not try to force your analysis to agree with your thesis. In other words, be open to re-articulating your thesis if your argument dictates that. ❑ Remember that you’re doing more than simply trying to “prove” your thesis. More importantly, you are looking to make your thesis compelling; or, to prove your thesis in a compelling way. ❑ A thesis develops: construct your argument thoughtfully—after the intro, you generally set up base-level ideas and then continually build towards greater complexity.
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