A Penny for Your Thoughts (Writing Prompts)

Creative Writing Approach: Write a paper where you put the characters, or the author or yourself, into a conversation with one other (for example, you write could write a play or a piece where Antigone might be in a conversation with Dante addressing their notions of death). The dialogue should focus on specific issues/observations addressed in class or through your own personal reading. Perhaps Antigone argues with Shahrazad on who is true authority, and on how one should fight against authority. This is just an example, but there will have to be a thesis addressed in the dialogue/argument/story telling between the characters, (or the characters and yourself, if you choose to put yourself in the story), with textual evidence to support it.
1. Be sure to describe location, time and place of the dialogue
Active vs Passive: Compare the active character of Antigone toward the passive character of Dante: one character moves and works inside the plot/story, while Dante is led around inside his story, and is consistently recognized as “other” and outside of it. Why might this characterization be significant for each of their stories? What does it do?
1. You could also choose to evaluate the idea of a hero, and if Antigone and Dante are both considered them with their very different characterizations, and why or why not. (What makes an epic hero? How does the text support or not support that?)