Write a research paper that is seven to eight paragraphs. It is required that you include at least seven sources from the library worksheet in the research paper. Choose one prompt listed below or a combination of prompts to work with as you examine a specific interpretation of the purpose of a genre from the second half of the semester in your research by including literary criticism to answer a specific aspect in the prompt or prompts. The paper is required to include an introduction with a specific thesis focusing on an innovative interpretation of the work, at least four body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph. You may focus on a specific point of characterization, various philosophical views, cultural issues, religious views, political views, among other themes, and symbolic representations to focus your interpretation of the purpose of the literary work based on the prompt or prompts that you will focus on in your research as you tie your points of interpretation into one cohesive point of view that is debatable in the thesis statement at the end of the introduction. Reference some scholars from a specific type of literary criticism in the paper and some credible scholarly sources, such as peer reviewed journals, books, and articles to support your claims. You may bring in opposing views based on your topic to refute with your perspectives. Reference scholars of the type of literary criticism or scholarly sources based on your interpretation that agree with your stance to prove your points. Cite in MLA 9th edition formatting. The research paper counts as 60 points of the final grade.
The Purpose:
You may contextualize the literary work(s) based on its historical significance at the time, along with how the literary work(s) may still be relevant in our culture today based on current philosophical views, current events, sociological and economic views, religious views, political views, along with psychological views of our day through the lens of literally criticism. Use one type of literary criticism to interpret one or more literary pieces in a genre from a specific and original approach.
1. Was Chaucer a revolutionary writer that was ahead of his time by focusing on the individual experience, which is found in a humanist Renaissance world, as he focuses on naturalist and humanist themes that strive to analyze the human condition while surpassing the mythical supernatural philosophies of his time based on alchemy, astrology, and mysticism? You can use this idea to write about whether he is expressing a satire of relativistic existentialism by providing absolutist moral answers within his seemingly ambiguous and controversially diverse atypical identities within their historical context
