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LAPS/HUMA 1780W - 2015: Stories in Diverse Media

Final Assignment

Take-Home Test

Posted: Monday, April 13, 2015

Due: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 on Turnitin (Moodle) at 11:55PM

INSTRUCTIONS (Read Carefully)

This assignment sheet is 3 pages and contains eight (8) questions in total.

Please answer four (4) of these questions.

Clearly indicate which question you are answering.

Your answers should be no less than 100 words and no more than 250 words for each question. You should provide examples from the texts you are discussing, to illustrate and support your points. Your responses should not just include information from the lectures, but, most importantly, they must show evidence of your own analysis. YOUR EXAM MUST ALSO CONTAIN REFERENCE TO TEXTS FROM EACH OF UNITS 4, 5 AND 6.

Number your pages and double-space your answers.

****You may not use the same film or text more than twice*** so think carefully about your answers and examples.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Your completed test must be submitted through Turnitin on Moodle by 11:55PM on Wednesday, April 29.

Late papers will be penalized 5% per day (including weekends).

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QUESTIONS:

1) Explain the concept ‘’the return of the repressed’ and discuss with reference ONE of the following texts:

Dracula, Jane Eyre, The Wide Sargasso Sea, People Under the Stairs, The Walking Dead, Rebecca

2) Dracula expressed many of the deep fears and anxieties circulating within the British Empire in the 19th Century Identify two (2) of those fears, and describe how they are manifested in the novel.

3) How are gender and race interrelated either in Jane Eyre OR The Wide Sargasso Sea?

4) Explain the relation of patriarchy OR race OR social class to colonialism as forms of social control. Use examples from TWO (2) of the texts below

Dracula, Jane Eyre The Wide Sargasso Sea, Frankenstein, The People Under the Stairs, The Hunger Games, Antigone, Wicked

5) The social class struggles of a particular age greatly influence the cultural texts of the same age. Drawing on two different texts that we have examined in Units 4, 5 and 6 show how they have been shaped by the class issues of their time.

6) Monsters and the “monstrous other” have been discussed in Units 4, 5 and 6. Compare two ‘monsters’ we have studied from two of the following texts.

Dracula, the Wide Sargasso Sea, Frankenstein, The People Under the Stairs, The Walking Dead, Rebecca

7) Describe the Byronic hero and give two examples from ANY of the units we have studied. Support your statement (e.g. why the character you have chosen is a Byronic hero).

8) Independence of thought and action, leadership skills, disregard for social conventions, and subversive resistance to patriarchal control, are the hallmarks of a feminist heroine, rather than a traditional female protagonist.

Discuss this statement in relation to ONE (1) of the characters listed below, providing examples from the one you choose.

· Jane Eyre from Jane Eyre

· Mina from Dracula

· The second Mrs. De Winter in Rebecca

CONTAIN REFERENCE TO TEXTS:

Dracula(Bram Stoker)

Twilight(Catherine Hardwick, 2008)

Frankenstein(Mary Shelly)

Jane Eyre(Charlotte Bronte)

The people under the stairs(Wes Craven, 1991)

Jane Eyre( Cary Fukunaga, 2011)

Rebecca( Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)

Excerpt:

Rebecca( Daphne DuMaurier, 1938)

The Wide Scargasso Sea( Jean Rhys)

The Eyre Affair(Jasper Fforde,2011)

Screen: The Wide Scargasso Sea(John Duigan,1993)