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Midterm Essay Questions
1) Does a journey in Gulliver Travels and Candid has a positive impact on the main heros of those texts?
2) Do Oroonoko and Candid declaim against slavery as an institution or do they advocate slavery?
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Midterm essay questions
1) When Shakespeare or Aphra Behn allude to misogynist or racist attitudes, are they endorsing them? Why, or why not?
2) Satire plays heavily in the works of Shakespeare, Voltaire, and Jonathan Swift. Choose two authors’ works and describe both a target of their satire as well as the target audience.
3) Learning and education are present as themes in all the works read thus far. What sort of value judgements are made by the authors? Is education presented as inherently valuable, or is it presented as an institution that often conceals as much truth as it may reveal?
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Potential Midterm Essay Question
- Discuss how humans treat others with cruelty once they feel ownership over other humans.
- Discuss the powerlessness of humans under superseding circumstances.
- Regardless of how different ( or degrading and inhumane) a society may seem to an outsider, it is considered normal to those who live in it.
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possible midterm questions
After reading Candide and The Taming of the Shrew what do you feel was reason for the writers for using satire and was there a meaning behind the stories other than an entertaining read?
Which character from the stories read in this semester so far do you feel a closer connection to? Use specific examples from the character to prove your relation to this character's personality as well as examples from your own personal life.
In Candide we see how Candide grows as a person while Condegon remains the same. In The taming of The Shrew we see how Katherine matures while Bianca does not. Why in your opinion was it important for the writers to include this?
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Paper topic: Gender Roles in the 17th Century, Rebellion or Submission and its Consequences
Every society has its own definition for the roles that men and women are to play, generally men are given the role of dominance and control, while women are given the role of the obedient wife. Katherine in “the taming of the Shrew” and Imoinda in “Onooroko” had very different ways of dealing with the expectations of their society, however both had consequences. Is it better to speak out on your beliefs or to submit to your predetermined role as a woman?
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Midterm Paper Topic
Suggested Topic:
Self-interest and temptation to use the power over those who are powerless.
Each text has the heroes more or less powerful and the ability to use the power sometimes makes people to do unfair and egoistic things.
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