Dear Students:
I am putting together the topics here below. Choose three topics and then write three short unified, coherent, well-developed, well-organized, and grammatically consistent essays into one paper, at least 6 pages long.
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1) For Robert Browning's dramatic monologues, find the two essays from the school's e-journals: David Bergman's "Browning's Monologues and the Development of the Soul" and William V. Nestrick's "Robert Browning: The Maker-See". Read and summarize them both and write your response to Browning's dramatic monologues with reference to the critical essays.
2) As an alternative to the above topic, write one short UNIFIED essay which analyzes the characters of the speakers in ALL Browning's dramatic monologues we have read.
3) Find Dorothy Mermin's essay "The Female Poet and the Embarrassed Reader: Elizabeth Barrett's Sonnets from the Portuguese". Read and summarize it and write your response to Barrett's sonnets with reference to this critical essay.
4) What is your understanding of Matthew Arnold's "Culture and Anarchy"? Do you think that a conflict of culture and anarchy is also taking place in the society of Taiwan today?
5) After watching the film "My Fair Lady", adapted from Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, what do you think of the social mobility in today's Taiwan? Can the distance between classes in Taiwan be crossed over more easily than that which is depicted by Shaw? How about the distance between the "souls" of different classes? (By "souls" it is meant the language, manners, mores, spiritual attainments, etc. which are peculiar to certain classes.)
6) What isVictorian respectability? How is it satirized in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest? (When answering, don't forget to expound the nature of Algernon's dandyism in contrast to this respectability.)
7) Find Margaret Mahar's essay "Hardy's Poetry of Renunciation". Read and summarize it and write your response to Hardy's Jude the Obscure with reference to this critical essay.
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