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ENG 102 Literature and Research

Use MLA format, clear thesis and evidence-based argumentation from the text, respond completely to the prompt: Write 4-6 pages not including the Works Cited Page. Use 3-4 good outside sources.

Essentially, you will need to develop a literary argument (your claim, thesis) and use the text and these outside sources to help support and develop your claim and thesis. The best outside sources can be found in magazines, journals, and newspapers. Google and Wikipedia are NOT considered good sources to write a research paper since there is numerous information on literary databases that you can find that are better suited to help support your argument. Remember to analyze, and not summarize. ENG 102 Literature and Research

1. Write an essay that draws on evidence from Antigone to explore precisely how and why it remains relevant to the world in which you live. Does Antigone, for example, depict a type of person or a conflict still common in the 21st century or might it articulate a theme that still applies?
2. Many of the critical excerpts focus on the conflict between Antigone and Creon, debating not only how conflict is ultimately resolved but also what the nature of the conflict is: for example, Richard C. Jebb posits that it is a conflict between “the duty of obeying the State’s laws” and the “duty of listening to the private conscience” while Maurice Browra states that the conflict is instead between the duty to the laws of man versus those of the gods and/or between the human tendency toward arrogance versus the need for humility and reverence. Write an essay that states what you perceive to be the central conflict between Antigone and Creon, using critical sources to support your interpretation.
3. In A Raisin in the Sun’s third act, Beneatha asserts that “there isn’t any real progress […] there is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture – in front of us- our own little mirage that we think is the future.” Asagai replies that progress instead follows ” a long line – as in geometry, […] one that reaches into infinity.” Write an essay in which you compare these two views of progress as they are depicted in A Raisin in the Sun. Does the play seem to favor one view or the other?
4. In Even More Crucial in the South, New York Times reporter Gertrude Samuels suggests that what African Americans were increasingly demanding in the late 1950s and early 1960s was not only an end to racial discrimination in housing, schooling, and employment but also above all “personal diginity” (1580), a point echoed in Martin Luther King Jr.’s reference in “Letter to Birmingham Jail”, to the”stinging darts of segregation” (1585). Drawing on these and other contextual excerpts, write an essay what the play might contribute to our understanding of the psychological and emotional effects of racial discrimination. How does the latter seem to affect the way the characters perceive themselves and each other?
5. Hansberry’s play explores not only the evolving social and economic positions of African Americans in the mid-twentieth century, but also their evolving gender roles. Write an essay in which you discuss the crucial role that gender plays in the action in A Raisin in the Sun. Does the play seem to uphold any particular vision of gender roles, especially within the family?

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