Time Travel Assignment

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The Mission:. (50 pts.) This assignment will count for both History and Literature.

 

· Write an essay (around five pages, typed and double-spaced) in which you travel from one era we have covered to another civilization and attempt to carry out an assassination of some key figure. Your essay should justify why your character would do this, based on primary sources, though you may also use class notes and textbook/lit reading. Again, this paper should be based on a primary source(s), so you should begin with a primary source and go from there. Your paper should therefore have citations (MLA) of your sources, from history or literature. Your character(s) must be pre-1400AD, and you may not travel to your own society, e.g., Nero murdering Julius Caesar (Jesus and Muhammad are sacrosanct, and therefore not allowed for this assignment).  You may use either first or third person, but first person might allow you to explore motivations more clearly.  You might choose to write a narrative, compose a letter, create a diary, or use some other appropriate form, but you should focus more on the “why” and less of the “how” of your assassination. Thus, do not be distracted by creating a fabulous story or explaining in detail how the time machine is built.  Your paper should be grounded in the sources and the best papers will show the values that are in conflict. You may frame this in the five categories if you wish.

 

Getting Started:

· You may choose to assassinate an identifiable historical figure or you may choose a “composite” or “representative figure.”  For example, you may decide that Socrates might travel to China to kill Confucius or that Mark Antony might travel to Sparta to kill Leonidas.  You could also, however, decide that a Spartan warrior might travel to India to kill a Brahmin or that one of Hammurabi’s soldiers would travel to kill a member of the assembly in Athens. Whatever your choice, you must provide clear reasoning and evidence to explain and justify the action.

 

Disclaimer: We are not, of course, advocating assassination as a viable option for settling conflicts.