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Which of the sonnets read this week was your favorite? In a post of at least 150 words, explain why you liked this poem best. Be very specific in your response, touching on both theme and particular phrasing that struck you. Please be sure to include your section number at […]

  Discuss how the theme of the Emily Dickinson poem “The Wife” relates to Mrs. Mallard’s emotional state in “The Story of an Hour.” In order to receive credit, you must refer to the totality of the poem, not just the first four lines. Please be sure to include your […]

In the essay about suspense in her story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” O’Connor writes writes that readers, like the ancient Greek viewers of tragedy, “should know what is going to happen in this story so that the element of suspense in it will be transferred from its surface to its interior.” We know what […]

“Tragedy is an imitation of an action of high importance, complete and of some amplitude; in language enhanced by distinct and varying beauties; acted not narrated; by means of pity and fear effecting its purgation of these emotions.” Apply the elements in the above criteria for tragedy set out by […]

Write a 150-word character analysis of the protagonist King Oedipus as he is portrayed in the portion of the play assigned for this week. Please be specific; you should have at least five specific observations about the king’s personality as seen in his behavior. Please limit your comments to this […]

There are three questions for this week: What is unusual about the narrative point of view of this story? For what reasons might the story be told from this atypical point of view? What might be reasons for the nonlinear timeline of this story? ALSO: Please post your thesis statement for Essay […]

  Critics have offered many interpretations of the seemingly simple story, “A White Heron.” It has been described as “a lamentation over humankind’s estrangement from nature”  (Atkinson). Other critics view the story through a feminist lens that rejects the predatory nature of men, as embodied by the young hunter, who offers […]

  As you reflect back on your reading of “Araby,” review the very last sentence: “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”Please address the following questions: How is the narrator a “creature driven and derided by vanity?” How […]

In the beautiful and haunting story “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a great change takes place in a remote village on a seaside cape after a beautiful drowned body washes to shore Why do you think I might have assigned this as the first story of […]