The final creative essay is a paper about you and your relationship with any of the books, characters and themes studied this semester in class. A minimum of five pages long (and no more than seven), double-spaced.
2. If you are citing any sources, use the MLA Style.
Compose a creative essay about a past event in your life and how you can reflect on it at present using at least four of the motives, characters or themes studied in the books read this semester.
Describing your relationship with three book characters from the ones studies that have had a significant influence on your life.
What if you were chosen to go on an expedition to inhabit the world and time period of any of two books studied in class?
You are a detective who is trying to solve a “hidden” crime in two of the books studied in class. Determine what that “crime” those are and how to solve their mystery, and why we had not seen foul play until now.
You woke up to find yourself in a world where the characters of three of the books studied in class all meet, mingle and interact. What will happen and what will they say to each other and why?
A “comparative analysis on any of the books studies and their translation into any other language, or their adaptation to film, theater etc.
Express your thoughts about a topic that hurts you in relation to the predicament of one or more of the characters in the books studied.
These are only some ideas and examples of potential topics, but you can certainly propose others and email me for feedback on your topic ideas.
Your creative essay will consist of:
1. Title
2. A Setup or Introduction: Involves introducing the main players and the situation that leads to main events in your creative essay. It could be the introduction of the central theme that you are talking about or mentioning the situation that you want your readers to get acquainted with.
3. The Confrontation or the Body Paragraphs: It is a key problem or event in your writing, and it represents the real body of your creative essay. The resolution is the climax where the main problem is resolved. These is the central section of your essay, made up of around 5 or 6 paragraphs more or less, depending on their extension. You need to answer the main questions (who, where, when, what, how) in relation to your quest, issue, problem, thesis, etc.
3. The Conclusion: The right way to finish your paper. You should try to wrap up the main ideas presented in the essay. It is only here where you can mention your opinion and what you think about the main struggle or issue.
Required Texts. Please use ONLY the editions specified below.
The Odyssey, transl. by Emily Wilson, Homer, W. W. Norton and Company. 1 edition, paperback, 2018. ISBN 978-0393089059
Oedipus the King, trans. Bernard Knox, Author: Sophocles, Simon and Schuster., paperback. ISBN 978-1 416500339
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, Translated by W S Mewin, paperback, New York Review Book, 2004. ISBN 9781590171325.
Tartuffe by Molière, translation by Richard Wilbur, Harvest Books; First edition ISBN-10: 9780156881807
