Comprehensive Essay

5-6 paragraphs.
Evidence (quotes from the novels) and Thesis Needed!

The theme of human connection, and the lack thereof, and the search for it: all the novels this quarter may be read as variations on this theme. Explore

its
development through the cultural eras (romanticism, realism, modernism,
postmodernism) surveyed in this course.

Novels including THE CRYING OF LOT 49, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Frankenstein, The Machine Stops and The

Sorrows of Young Werther.