Why is the idea of playing a role or acting a part so important to Hamlet over the course of the play? How does role-playing affect several major events in the plot and the relationships between various characters?
Category: Literature
Laertes and Fortinbras serve as foils for Hamlet
Answer the following questions in a literary essay of at least five paragraphs. Remember to incorporate textual evidence in all of your responses.
As you know, Laertes and Fortinbras are two characters in Shakespeare’s play that serve as foils for Hamlet. How does each figure expose or highlight certain traits in Hamlet’s character, and how does each character’s behavior in the play relate to the themes of of advice and duty, action versus inaction, and sanity versus madness?
Why is the idea of playing a role or acting a part so important to Hamlet over the course of the play? How does role-playing affect several major events in the plot and the relationships between various characters?vice and duty, action versus inaction, and sanity versus madness?
Heliodorus
Write about a topic of your choice related to either Heliodorus or Of One Blood, including literary influences upon them or their reception in later periods. Find a specific focus that interests you, formulate a thesis and develop your idea in an essay of seven to eight pages.
One Blood preserve “religious, political, and social”
Pauline Hopkins herself wrote that, “Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs—religious, political, and social. It is a record of growth and development from generation to generation.”
Does Of One Blood preserve “religious, political, and social” customs in this way? Do you agree with Hopkins’ statement?
One Blood leaves “unanswered questions”
“Unlike Odysseus, however, both Charicleia and Reuel return to a place they never knew; in Ethiopia, they are native and alien at the same time. Torn between who they seem to be and who they are, both lay claim to a dual racial/ethnic inheritance. Charicleia has to prove that, despite appearances to the contrary, she is the Ethiopian princess, but Reuel must learn of his true identity—as an Ethiopian prince—from others. The multicultural marriages that conclude both novels may be read as conciliatory, but like most fictional endings, they leave unanswered questions and ambivalent messages,” Marla Harris, “Not Black and/or White: Reading Racial Difference in Heliodorus’s Ethiopica and Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” African American Review 35.3 (2001) 375-390 (388).
Do you agree that Of One Blood leaves “unanswered questions”? Discuss these “ambivalent messages”, and what their significance is.
Historical elements blended with fictional ones
Directions:
There are fifteen questions connected to this assignment. Questions 1-10 are worth one point each and should be answered briefly. Questions 11-15 are also worth one point and should have a short well-developed response.
In the first part, each question’s answer should be brief but descriiptive and analytical. Use quotes from the book to support your thoughts when possible.
Make sure you explain why you thought the in-text citations you chose were important.
In the second part, explain the quote as applied to the book, Outside the Bones by Lyn Di Iorio as completely as possible.
After a careful look at your assignment for any grammatical, structural, or stylistic errors,
Part 1
1. After having read the novel, what was your opinion about Fina?
2. How were historical elements blended with fictional ones in this story?
3. How did Afro-Caribbean witchcraft and belief systems add another layer to the book’s narrative development?
4. Do you think Fina was truly a “spirit worker”?
5. What were your thoughts about Chico?
6. Was Palo Monte a spiritual metaphor, magical journey, and/or literary quest strategy?
7. How does this novel show different levels of ghostly occurrences?
8. How can this novel be categorized as a mystery or detective novel?
9. If you had been Fina’s friend, what advice or help would you have given her?
10. What was your favorite part of the novel?
Part 2
11. “Our dead want to be part of our conversation, they do not allow us to forget, they tell us that the communities that are no longer present are also part of the communities we create in life.” (Cristina Rivera Garza)
12. Spectral texts reveal “a series of interconnected topics related to the past, ranging from colonial violence to more recent times. [They] gesture to an
ethics of memory counteracting the politics of closure and the silencing of the past.” (Jean Franco)
13. “Sinister narratives are populated by characters who have crossed the line between absences and shadows…they haunt the consciousness” (Albert Ribas Casasayas)
14. “Conditions in the past banished certain individuals, things, ideas…circumstances rendered them marginal, excluded or repressed.” (Avery Gordon)
15. “Everyday life is haunted by implicit others, who supposedly live outside the ordinary, the everyday…whether the ordinary is haunted by what is outside it or by what used to be part of it, it is represented as a haunting, haunted structure, where what you see is never quite what you get.” (Esther Peeren)
Historical elements blended with fictional ones
Directions:
There are fifteen questions connected to this assignment. Questions 1-10 are worth one point each and should be answered briefly. Questions 11-15 are also worth one point and should have a short well-developed response.
In the first part, each question’s answer should be brief but descriiptive and analytical. Use quotes from the book to support your thoughts when possible.
Make sure you explain why you thought the in-text citations you chose were important.
In the second part, explain the quote as applied to the book, Outside the Bones by Lyn Di Iorio as completely as possible.
After a careful look at your assignment for any grammatical, structural, or stylistic errors,
Part 1
1. After having read the novel, what was your opinion about Fina?
2. How were historical elements blended with fictional ones in this story?
3. How did Afro-Caribbean witchcraft and belief systems add another layer to the book’s narrative development?
4. Do you think Fina was truly a “spirit worker”?
5. What were your thoughts about Chico?
6. Was Palo Monte a spiritual metaphor, magical journey, and/or literary quest strategy?
7. How does this novel show different levels of ghostly occurrences?
8. How can this novel be categorized as a mystery or detective novel?
9. If you had been Fina’s friend, what advice or help would you have given her?
10. What was your favorite part of the novel?
Part 2
11. “Our dead want to be part of our conversation, they do not allow us to forget, they tell us that the communities that are no longer present are also part of the communities we create in life.” (Cristina Rivera Garza)
12. Spectral texts reveal “a series of interconnected topics related to the past, ranging from colonial violence to more recent times. [They] gesture to an
ethics of memory counteracting the politics of closure and the silencing of the past.” (Jean Franco)
13. “Sinister narratives are populated by characters who have crossed the line between absences and shadows…they haunt the consciousness” (Albert Ribas Casasayas)
14. “Conditions in the past banished certain individuals, things, ideas…circumstances rendered them marginal, excluded or repressed.” (Avery Gordon)
15. “Everyday life is haunted by implicit others, who supposedly live outside the ordinary, the everyday…whether the ordinary is haunted by what is outside it or by what used to be part of it, it is represented as a haunting, haunted structure, where what you see is never quite what you get.” (Esther Peeren)
Comparing the story of “the lesson” by Chopin and “story of an hour” by Bambara
Compare and contrast the story of “the lesson” by Chopin and “story of an hour” by Bambara
What kind of transformation do the characters in your story experience? How do their transformation compare and contrast?
May use examples quotes from the story that prove the thesis, at least one per body paragraph.
Use language in a tone appropriate to earn academic audience
Work cited page
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Information Literacy
identify a need for information and locate, evaluate, and cite appropriate sources in APA format.
Carefully review all of the following models:
“Writing an Annotated Bibliography” (University of Toronto)
“What is an Annotated Bibliography?” (California State University, Northridge)
https://libguides.csun.edu/research-strategies/annotated-bibliography
“How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography” (Cornell University)
https://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliography
Constructing survey questions and writing good survey questions
Review the articles in this module to gain knowledge about constructing survey questions and writing good survey questions. This is your opportunity to
develop your questionnaire or interview questions for your research proposal. Take some time to think about the best way to collect data from your
participants based on your research question. Does giving participants a questionnaire fit with your research proposal, or does interviewing with participants
make more sense for your specific research design?
After you have identified whether a questionnaire or interview is most appropriate for your study design, you are going to develop your questionnaire or
interview questions for your research proposal.
If you choose to develop a questionnaire: Using one of the online questionnaire creation tools or word documents, create a 10 item survey questionnaire on
your research topic. Think about what kind of questions you are going to use. Will you include multiple-choice, true/false, short answer, etc.?
Websites: (Note: The following websites can be found in the Activities & Assignments section of this module)
Surveymonkey.com
Surveyplanet.com
If you choose to develop an interview: Using a word document, create 10 interview questions that you would ask your participants in an interview? Be specific
and make sure to explore all avenues of each question that you are asking.
You will include this document in your final research proposal.
Some questions you may want to consider when developing your questionnaire/interview:
Are the questions open-ended or close-ended?
Are the questions leading and could influence the participants’ answers in a specific way? Remember as researchers, we are unbiased and want to take a
neutral stance with the questions we develop for reliability and validity purposes.
Do the questions align with ethics and values covered in Module 3? Are the questions culturally appropriate?
Are there any other suggestions that you can think of that may help your classmate with their survey or interview questions?