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Part II: Topic and thesis

Topic and Literary Theory: For the research, I plan to write on the works of William Faulkner and Katherine Mansfield. I aim to explore the theme of societal alienation on how the characters were left out by society or disconnected from society and how this loneliness impacted the character's actions. I will use the literary theory to examine the character's impacts on them as individuals and their effects on others to find out the consequences of societal alienation on their emotional well-being and actions.

Research Question: How do the stories, A Rose for Emily and Miss Brill explore societal isolation and how this loneliness impacts the character's feelings and how they act in the stories? How do the characters in the stories attempt to cope with their feelings of loneliness and isolation, both individually and in their interactions with others, and how does this theme reflect broader on the societal issues of inclusion and exclusion?

Working Thesis Statement: This paper aims to examine how the stories of Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner show how the characters of the stories experience loneliness and isolation from society, how the isolation affects their feeling and actions, and their emotional well-being, how the character's societal alienation impacted the characters feeling disconnected from others and how the character's coped with isolation individually and socially.

Works Cited entries: Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." Archive.org, 1930, https://archive.org/stream/ARoseForEmily1930/A_Rose_for_Emily_djvu.txt .

Mansfield, Katherine. "Miss Brill." Project Gutenberg, 1920, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1429/1429-h/1429-h.htm#chap09 .