The final creative essay is a paper on you and your relationship with any of the books, (The Odyssey, transl. by Emily Wilson, Homer, Oedipus the King, trans. Bernard Knox, Author: Sophocles, Simon and Schuster. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, Translated by W S Mewin. Tartuffe by Molière, translation by Richard Wilbur). characters and themes studied this semester in class. A minimum of six pages long (and no more than eight), 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 some of the motives, characters or themes studied in the books read.
Describing your relationship with two 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 the books studied in class?
You are a detective who is trying to solve a “hidden” crime in any of the books studied in class. Determine what that “crime” is and how to solve its mystery, and why we had not seen foul play until now.
You woke up to find yourself in a world where the characters 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. 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.
2. The Confrontation or the Body Paragraph: 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. It is the conclusion where you can mention your opinion and what you think about the main struggle or issue.
3. The Conclusion: The right way to finish your paper. You need to answer these central questions: who, where, when, what, and how. You should try to provide answers to all these questions throughout the essay so that your readers stay interested until the end.
