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Essay # 3: The Struggle Between Order & Passion   - 5 pages; double-spaced; MLA heading and title

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Essay # 3: The Struggle Between Order & Passion

 

- 5 pages; double-spaced; MLA heading and title.

 

- Citing/quoting any of the primary sources, if you are using any of the assigned editions of your text books, your course packet, or from the above guidelines, a works cited page is not required. If you are using another edition of any of the primary sources, a works cited page is required.

 

- Citing/quoting/using any secondary sources, a works cited page is required.

 

- Discussing novels in class doesn’t always allow us the opportunity to fully develop and analyze the details. Instead, many times, we talk about the novel in overview and in generalities. Your essay should take advantage of and fully explore the specifics of the text and do we were not able to do during class discussion.

 

YOU MUST CHOOSE ONE OPTION AND ONE OPTION ONLY

OPTION 1-

 

1. Develop your own essay topic/argument/interpretation on Christopher Rice’s A Density of Souls

Your thesis must contain a unique interpretation of the work and a focus for the essay; the argument must then be supported with relevant discussion and examples from the work.

OPTION 2-

2. Focusing on Christopher Rice’s A Density of Souls discuss the struggle that exists between Order and Passion as evidenced in the work(s).

 

Your essay should incorporate a thesis (unique interpretation and focus) regarding this struggle and what the author(s) is saying about this struggle, relevant discussion, specific examples/scenes/quotations, and may also include a discussion of literary devices discussed in class to support your claims.

 

The below quote from Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice that plays a major role in A Density of Souls may be an appropriate starting point and may be incorporated into your essay:

For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life; it welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such disorder a vague hope of finding advantage for itself.