Respond to the following prompt for 25-30 minutes. Be sure to write well: use a strong command
of language, varying sentence structure, textual support for your ideas and
avoid using paraphrase as analysis—make your points explicitly.
We’ve read a wide variety of literature, from Greek and
Roman classics to modern novels and poems; within this selection, we’ve also
come across many different genres, from epics to existentialism; romanticism to
transcendentalism; modernism to magical realism. In our current novel, Orwell introduces us to
a new genre: a "soft" type of science fiction. However, the ideas presented should be
familiar. Many of our authors have made
similar statements about the human and/or societal experience, no matter what
the genre. Therefore, what thematic
connections are you seeing to other pieces we've read this year? Choose at least two and explain.
P.S. BOTH Achebe and Conrad are off limits--you can use one, but not both.
