What follows are five short answer questions. Please choose 3 to write on. Answer in no less than one longish and no more than 2 longish paragraphs. Type your answers and bring them with you to the final during our last class period. I will not accept take home essays at any time other than the final.
1. Name a theme found in at least three separate pieces of literature you have read this term. Briefly indicate 1) what the theme is 2) what texts you see it developed in and 3) how the theme manifests itself in each of the three texts you have named.
2. Even though he has Gulliver narrate Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift gives readers several clues that Gulliver is not always to be trusted by us. Give at least 3 examples, and explain how these moments (or statements or situtations) undermine Gulliver's authority or trustworthiness.
3. List five features of the gothic novel found in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. Be as specific as you can. Discuss the effects that these features have in the novella. (In other words, besides for our entertainment, how is Walpole using these features? What does he accomplish with them?)
4. What are three differences you see between the literature of the Enlightenment (Swift, Pope) and the literature of the Romantic period (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats). What historical or philosophical shifts or events might account for those differences? Be as specific as possible.
5. In what ways can The Vindication of the Rights of Women be seen as a reaction to Milton's Paradise Lost? How, specifically, does Wollstonecraft use Milton's work as an important touchstone in her argument for women's education?
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