Thesis and outline by 8AM

SAMPLE THESIS

 

1.    Subject: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John LeCarre

a.     Thesis: LeCarre shows how the Post Modern politics of freedom demand, ironically, absolute commitment to ideas at the terrible cost of both personal freedom and personal happiness.

2.    Subject: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

a.     Thesis: The union of Frye’s Mythic, Romantic, High Mimetic, Low Mimetic and Ironic structure in Tolkien’s epic The Lord of the Rings confirms Tolkien’s idea that hope for mankind exists today in the faith of the ordinary person.

3.    Subject: Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

a.     Thesis: Greene believes that the main Character, Pinkie, is the natural byproduct of a postmodern dystopian society.

4.    Subject: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and Beowulf

a.     Thesis: Tolkien transforms the Romantic/Mythic story Beowulf into the low-mimetic Hobbit to show the modern world that the hope Beowulf represented 10 centuries ago still exists in ordinary people.

5.    One Flew and The Ill-made Knight

a.     The American Ironic Hero McMurray is the Romantic Hero Lancelot translated into the modern World.

6.    Graham Greene series of short stories

a.     Greene’s Ironic heroes find that only faith is able to resists despair in a Dystopian Society.

7.    The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler

a.     Raymond Chandler create a particularly American– ironic Hero whose distinguishing American character is able to reject the ironic world.

8.    Dune – Herbert

a.     Dune is a mythic story that follows Joseph Campbell’s Transformation of Consciousness.