Survey of English Literature

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DIRECTIONS
Below are five questions. Choose one question to answer. Your response is to be at least five pages, double spaced, and in 12-point Times New Roman Font.

You are to submit your exam in a single file and upload it to Blackboard either in a Microsoft Word file (.docx or .doc) or converted to a PDF.

The texts for which you are responsible are the ones that we have read up to the midway point of the semester, from Beowulf through to and including Malory’s Morte D’Arthur. Do not write about texts that are not on our syllabus.

For your response, you are not to use any secondary sources (i.e., no resource books, articles, or internet sources). You are only to use your class texts (The Norton and the online Robin Hood and Arthurian texts), the Echo 360 lectures, and hand-outs that I have uploaded to Blackboard. All citations must be in MLA format (parenthetical citations in which you state page number[s] for prose and line number[s] for verse), but you do not need to include a “Works Cited” page. The majority of your responses should be your own ideas. Choose your quotes carefully, and refrain from using block quotations and quotes that are longer than one line of typed text.
Those answers that have a properly qualified thesis statement, correctly answer the question, maintain a clear focus, are organized in a systematic manner, refrain from plot synopsis, provide accurate and well-chosen citations, and are free of any grammatical and mechanical errors will be deemed to be of the highest quality.

QUESTIONS
1.Is Beowulf more of an epic or an elegy? In answering this question, you are to examine three other texts that we have read that have epic and/or elegiac qualities.
2.Compare and contrast the roles of women in two Anglo-Saxon texts and two Middle English texts. Which tradition presents a more favorable portrayal of women, or is the representation of women uniform across these texts from two distinct literary periods?
3.Compare and contrast the natural world (i. e., the outdoors, areas with no human civilization) with the world of humans (i. e., cities, buildings, castles, farms, homes). Focus on three different texts (one of which must be The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales), and determine which world is more hospitable.
4.Compare and contrast three heroes from our texts, and argue for the one whom you deem to be the most heroic of the three. You might consider armor, speech, manners, and values. How does the hero, faced with seemingly insurmountable odds or in defeat, represent ideals of the heroic held by the author and his culture? Do not write about Chuacer’s Knight from the General Prologue. Keep in mind that some heroes appear in multiple texts, such as Gawain; so if you write on a character such as Gawain, focus only on one text in which he appears.
5.Several texts are filled with humans who are dangerous (a word that is relative in meaning), while other texts have non-humans (monsters, spectral figures, beasts, etc.) who are dangerous. Compare and contrast two human characters with two non-human characters; each character must come from a different text. Determine which is more dangerous, the non-human or the human.
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