Tuesday, November 24, 2009

final project proposal

For my final project I am looking toward doing an extension of my Literary analysis paper. The paper I did for my analysis was regarding the text Dracula; for my paper I chose to explore the motif's of female sexuality along with the battle between past knowledge and present knowledge. However, for my final project I do not believe these motif's connect particularly well with a single other novel we have read thus far in this class, although there are hints of such motif's throughout in most all the novels we have read thus far. Therefore, for my final project I was planning on incorporating all of the villians or monsters read thus far into one sort of monster analysis. The characters that made the cut would be Frankenstein, Dracula, Monk?, Heathcliff (possibly not I don't really feel as if his character was dominant enough or as dynamic as the other characters throughout), Lestat & Louis as a duo, and possibly one of the characters from beloved which I have yet to indulge in.
In the analyis I will discuss motives, beliefs, causes, setting contribution towards advancing plot, human nature vs. monster nature, ultimate character downfalls, mistakes, plot possibilities. I will be trying to incorporate some of my original motifs from Dracula such as female sexuality and the battle for past and present, However as I said they just aren't apparent in a few of our stories. As a possiblity I would like to leave open I was thinking about maybe also, a spoof short story that although it would be based off of sarcasm; I believe I could incorporate character aspects in a very interesting piece with a humorous twist. I do not believe for this satire or whatever you would like to call it, that I could incorporate all of the characters but I do believe some of the characters have interesting parallels and very controversial and substantial differences (more so the latter) that could make for an in depth character analysis that would actually be somewhat interesting to read.

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