5-6 Page English Paper (details in Attachement) for A-Plus Writer

Instructions for paper Length: 5-6 Pages

We have been looking closely at Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House, focusing particularly on how the characters in the play develop and assert their own identities, and how they are influenced and shaped by those around them, as well as by the values and expectations of the society in which they live.

Your task for this final project, then, is to write a well-thought out, well-developed essay in which you analyze how this search for identity, and how the pressures and expectations of society influence one of the major characters in the play. How are a character’s actions, impulses and desires driven by these factors? How does the character respond to these factors? How might the character be transformed by them?

You will note that this topic is much like the topic you wrote about in essay #2. That, of course, is intentional. I want you to employ what you might have learned about utilizing non-literary texts to effectively interpret literary texts to craft a well-thought out, insightful paper.

To support and strengthen your analysis, I am asking that you refer to sources that I have provided. These sources should be used to help you more fully understand the character you have chosen.

Please utilize THREE of the following sources in addition to the (a dolls house) text:

· “Gender Roles Behaviors and Attitudes,” Holly Devor

· “Sex, Lies, and Conversation,” Deborah Tannen 

· Introduction to The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman

· “Individuation: From Fusion to Dialogue,” Mark Karpel

Your task is to use these sources to help strengthen the argument you make about the search for identity in the literary work. The best essays will substantively engage the outside sources, carefully analyzing how we might apply the ideas presented in these sources to our analysis of the literary text.

Works may include an essay in an edited collection or anthology, or a chapter of a book. The basic form is for this sort of citation is as follows:

Last name, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.

An Example:

Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers." A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One. Ed. Ben Rafoth. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2000. 24-34. Print.