Humanities Homework Help

Address something very specific, comparable, and keenly intellectually interesting to you in two of our works of the second half of the semester.

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Possibilities abound.Look back over your questions and commentaries for suggestions.Below are a few possibilities, but note that they’re very general: they’d need to be made quite specific to succeed in so short an essay.For example “Symbols of Self in Trifles and SND” might concentrate on the birdcage and the trunk or on the canary and the Chinese lantern, probing them for their subtleties, their nuances, their meaning.

What follows are possibilities, suggestions. You’ll most likely already have something in mind from our work together in class.

Reversal of the Masculine and Feminine in M.Butterfly and Good Woman of Setzuan.

Self as Actor in A Streetcar Named Desire and M.Butterfly.

Self-deception and Self-awakening in Death and the King’s Horseman and Groundhog.

Feminist Vision in Trifles and Top Girls.

Metadrama in M.Butterfly and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Technology and the Erasure of Self in A Number and Groundhog.

Symbols of Self in Trifles and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Consequences of the Fall of the Absolute (God) in Good Woman of Setzuan and M.Butterfly

Failures of Communication in Trifles and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Breaking the Fourth Wall in Good Woman of Setzuan and M.Butterfly

Problems of Modern Identity in Number and MB. The plays that you can use are: Good Woman of Setzuan by Brecht, Top Girls by Churchill, Trifles by Glaspell, M.Butterfly by Hwang, Death and the King’s Horseman by Soyinka, A Streetcar Named Desire by Williams, and A Number by Churchill. MAKE SURE TO USE 2 PLAYS