Month: March 2012

  • Isolation and “otherness”

    The motif of isolation and “otherness” is a common one in art and literature. Select a text from your own reading or viewing that focuses on a character who is isolated and longs for another place or connection where he or she can feel a sense of belonging. Write an essay analyzing this theme and…

  • Art is coming face to face with yourself

    Select one of the following quotations and write an essay explaining how one of the texts you have studied does or does not support the quote. “Art is coming face to face with yourself.” – Jackson Pollock “When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to…

  • A Marriage Proposal

    Read Anton Chekhov’s A Marriage Proposal. Meaning Identify the object of Chekhov’s satire in this play. Support your interpretation with a specific reference to the text. Why do you think Chekhov included the character to Chubukov in the play? What functioin does he serve? Form and Style The play has a strong emotional tone. Explain…

  • Hunches

    A hunch is a feeling or impression that something is about to happen. Authors sometimes use a character’s hunches to create suspense or to tie together a group of events. For example, in “Stains,” the mother has been afraid for her son “for a long time. She realized that when the doorbell rang at 4…