Your second essay will analyze Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
The aims of this essay will be for you to accomplish the following: 1) present an argument (with your own unique thesis) about this important literary text; 2) back up that argument with evidence from the primary text; 3) offer your argument and evidence within a clear pattern of organization and convincing analysis; and 4) write clearly, logically, concisely, and correctly, including correct usage of Modern Language Association in-text citations for all quotes and specific references to the play.
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Respond to ONE of these two options in your essay:
1. What is the significance of point of view in RGAD? And what is the significance of experimentation with point of view in RGAD? (Think of what Stoppard is doing and commenting on greater than the play itself.)
2. How does RGAD embrace unconventionality AND adhere to a literary tradition? For what reasons does this play attempt both? And to what extent does the play appear to be commenting that the “unconventional” is necessary in literature now?
