literary analysis

themes-3.docx

This table is designed to assist you with your Final Assignment, Text Analysis

It shows which themes can be found in which literary works

Themes	Literary Works
Heroism	Gilgamesh Ramayana The Epic of Sundiata The Odyssey The Inferno (The Canto of Ulysses).
Gender (Place of women/men in the world, Feminism)	Ramayana The Love Suicides at Amijima The Thousand and One Nights A Sister to Schehrazade The Odyssey
Colonialism-Anti-colonialism	"Chekov and Zulu" Things Fall Apart The Tempest (Shakespeare) A Tempest (Cesaire) Guns, Germs, and Steel (video) Orientalism (video) Montaigne “Of Cannibals” Aztec-Spanish Dialogues The True History of New Spain
Representation of the Self Critique of the Self and Society, Social reform	“A Madman’s Diary” “TV People” Michel de Montaigne’s “Of Cannibals” “Songs of the Aztec Nobility” “We are not Your Monkeys” Confucius “The Analects”
Representation of “the other”	“We Are Not Your Monkeys” Orientalism (Video) Things Fall Apart The True History of the Conquest of New Spain “Songs of the Aztec Nobility”