Essay Instructions: Assginment
Final Paper on an Aspect of Human Experience. Submit a 6-8 page paper discussing a specific aspect of the human experience as it is defined in several works of literature from the list below (fear, love, friendship, hope, desperation, etc.). Highlight the connections across the different readings and discuss these connections in terms of the works? context and how your experiences may have shaped your interpretation. At least three primary works from the list below must be used as resources for this paper. It is suggested that you use one primary source each from the genres of poetry, drama, and fiction.
Fiction (Short Stories):
?Araby,? James Joyce
"The Woman Taken in Adultery," John
"Misery," Anton Chekhov
?A Rose for Emily,? William Faulkner
?The Lottery,? Shirley Jackson
?Before the Law,? Franz Kafka
?The Fall of the House of Usher,? Edgar Allan Poe
?The Man to Send Rain Clouds,? Leslie Marmon Silko
"Everyday Use," Alice Walker
"Boys and Girls," Alice Munro
Poetry:
"Rites of Passage," Sharon Olds
"Daddy," Sylvia Plath
"Come Live with Me and Be My Love," Christopher Marlowe
"The Nymph?s Reply to the Shepherd," Sir Walter Raleigh
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T. S. Eliot
"Myth," Muriel Rukeyser
"My Papa?s Waltz," Theodore Roethke
"A Work of Artifice," Marge Piercy
"When I Was One-and-Twenty," A.E. Housman
"Child of the Americas," Aurora Levins Morales
"On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City," Sherman Alexie
"Before the Mirror," John Updike
"Mending Wall," Robert Frost
"To His Coy Mistress," Andrew Marvell
"A Poison Tree," William Blake
"Love Song," Joseph Brodsky
"Wishes for sons," Lucille Clifton
"Woman?s Work," Julia Alvarez
Drama:
"A Doll?s House," Henrik Ibsen
"Hamlet," William Shakespeare
"Fences," August Wilson
?The Glass Menagerie,? Tennessee Williams
Fiction:
"The Lesson," Toni Cade Bambara
"El Tonto del Barrio," Jos? Armas
"The Man to Send Rain Clouds," Leslie Marmon Silko